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Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a South African psychologist of striking moral intelligence and clarity who served on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up in the aftermath of apartheid's overthrow to try to deflect retaliation and revenge. Eugene de Kock is a white South African who served for many years as the commander of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads. De Kock is serving a 212-year sentence in a Pretoria prison for crimes against humanity...
...pause shows during their actual air time, record an entire season of “Law and Order” with a single click, and zip through boring acceptance speeches and overly familiar opening sequences (after all, one can only watch Sarah Jessica Parker’s little pink tutu get splattered by mud so many times). Far superior and simpler than the VCR, it also discerns its viewers’ television-watching habits to record shows it thinks he or she would like, and does away with the frustrating task of having to stare down a blinking...
...past, candidates have petitioned and run on platforms advocating particular issues. For example, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was elected at the height of a campaign to force the University to divest from holdings in Apartheid South Africa...
...ones that don’t, for instance. A little honey wearing a white mini-skirt with a huge black belt gets a thumbs up. Apparently, she’s doing a much better job at pairing the two most basic colors on earth than the woman wearing a tutu looking, 80’s-esque ball gown with crazy zigzag patterns or the woman caught wearing (gasp!) polka dots...
Lest anyone make the mistake of thinking that this behavior is merely a reflection of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ abrasive style, it might be well to recall that more than a decade ago, when a group of alumni managed to elect Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Board of Overseers as part of a campaign to persuade Harvard to divest its South African holdings, the response of then-President Derek C. Bok was to change the rules for electing Overseers so that no one like Tutu would be elected in the future. Once Nelson Mandela was released...