Word: tutu
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...Desmond Tutu may be retired, but he isn't retiring. Wise and witty as ever, the Nobel Prize-winning South African Archbishop remains an outspoken and compelling figure 12 years after his nonviolent activism helped abolish apartheid. Earlier this month, he marked his 75th birthday with the release of his authorized biography, Rabble-Rouser for Peace. Tutu talked with TIME's Sonja Steptoe about aging, the divisions in the Anglican Church and Nelson Mandela's questionable sense of style...
...TIME: What's the best thing about life at 75? Tutu: Looking back and now saying, "Hey, we are free!" And realizing it is possible for good to overcome evil and to know that we can do it together...
...TIME: You learned you had prostate cancer in 1997. Are you now cancer free? Tutu: It was in remission for a bit, and it has come back. But so far, it's not aggressive. As a baby I nearly died. And when I was about 15, I had tuberculosis and the doctors told my family I was going to die. So all these years that I've enjoyed have been bonuses...
...groups, the IOP is also home to the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, one of the world’s premiere venues for public servants to speak. Hundreds of heads of state, legislators, social entrepreneurs, and thinkers have addressed the forum, from Senator Hillary R. Clinton to Archbishop Desmund Tutu to Justice Antonin Scalia. These study groups and speakers encourage students to become active participants in the political process by giving students the option to question the powers that...
...director approaches this highly charged subject, we expect something other, something more, than honorable sentiment. It's as if Will Ferrell were to play Hamlet. Not that he couldn't, just that the audience would be waiting for the melancholy Dane to go all giggly, strip off his black tutu and run naked through Elsinore. Similarly, Stone's admirers (and detractors) will monitor World Trade Center for some of the conspiratorial vigor he brought to JFK, or the loopy critique, in Natural Born Killers, of extreme violence and the mass media that exploit it and profit from...