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...Desmond Tutu, black South African leader and opponent of U.S. investment in that country, will receive an honorary degree at Thursday's Commencement ceremonies, The Boston Globe reported Saturday...
President Bok, who said in an open letter this spring that divestiture of University stock in companies doing business in South Africa is unjustified, will award Tutu the degree...
President Bok would not confirm the Globe report but said he knew Tutu as "someone of very deep convictions and great personal courage...
...plunk-plunk music. Some of the most memorable songs are English or American ballads rendered in Hawaiian to a Hawaiian beat; The Battle Hymn of the Republic sounds terrific that way. Many other chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound of poi, ten can of beer, eleven missionary and twelve television...
...more magnanimous tutu would surely have thrown in one $500,000 condo and two grilled mahimahi filets. Mo is bettah! Brok'd'moutt! Thank you, Sun! -Michael Demarest...