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...narrative is told through David Lurie, a divorced, passionless professor of English Literature whose seduction of one of his colored students precipitates a train of events that leads to him losing his job, his reputation and his lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings of the TRC, he alludes to them through Luries appearance before a university disciplinary committee. While Lurie is prepared to admit his guilt in abusing his position of authority by coercing the young student into a sexual relationship with him, that is as far as he will go. He refuses...
Student groups, whose stamps of approval often carry weight among both members and other students, have spent hours since Dec. 1, the campaign's official start, interviewing candidates, grilling them on issues from anti-homophobia measures to College funding for campus activities...
...kind of cheap inspiration imparted by this excerpt from the weakest section of The Cure at Troy is perfect for earnest and boring lightweights like Doubletake Magazinewhich takes the same quote as its mantrabut one would really expect more substance from Gordimer, whose fiction breathes with implacable moral force...
Conservatives certainly do not object, as the Crimson staff asserts, to "homosexuals sharing their identity with others." Nor, as Tan and Carbellano outrageously claim, do we "question the validity of [gays'] right to exist." These sorts of groundless attacks echo the slanders of protesters at the Coming Out Dinner, whose posters denounced Ronald Reagan as a "genocidal bigot." There is no place for such puerile theatrics at Harvard...
...think they are doing a good job reaching out to students with mixed backgrounds whose parents may not have even gone to college," she says...