Word: tutu
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...dramatic scene of anger and hatred last week involved Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Tutu and a fellow Anglican bishop had gone to Duduza, a black township 30 miles east of Johannesburg, to officiate at the funerals of four young men who had accidentally blown themselves up with explosives. As the two churchmen left the cemetery after the burial, they were confronted by a mob attempting to kill a black man whom they suspected of being a police spy. The crowd had seized him, set his car afire and was trying to hurl him into...
Previous recipients of the award include more political figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and novelist Elie Wiesel. Although an actor like Stone seems unlikely company for such dignitaries, Harvard Foundation Director Dr. S. Allen Counter called Stone “the embodiment of humanitarianism,” referring to her 10 years of AIDS advocacy work as the campaign chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR...
...addition, Nobel Prize Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu and Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., among others, have joined the Unite Against AIDS Summit Advisory Board...
...University receives wide-spread criticism when Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu publicly endorses three pro-divestment candidates for the Board of Overseers in 1986 and tells the Boston Globe that he will return his honorary degree if the University does not divest. Tutu resigns from the board...
Make the issue an issue by gaining the support of the public and publicly respected Harvard professors. Intellectual celebrities help legitimize and strengthen students’ complaints in the eyes of the bureaucrats upstairs. (For example: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu wants you to divest, too. We’ll sit in this doorway until you notice...