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Haverford College named holocaust survivor and author Ele Wiesel as its commencement speaker earlier this month...
...Wiesel, currently Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University, has authored 21 books in addition to serving as chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council...
...Berlin shop window displaying a demoniac device that purported to measure the difference between Aryan and non-Aryan skulls. Most of the subjects were unwilling to be photographed, so Vishniac hid his camera, first from the Jews but then from the Nazis. In a moving foreword, Novelist Elie Wiesel calls Vishniac the "poet of memory." It is an even more apt title than the one adorning this haunting and invaluable work...
...extinguished in a state of freezing darkness. There was Robert McNamara arguing that the number of missiles must be reduced, and there was Kissinger explaining the need for tough strategic thinking. The only panelist who laid no claim to being an expert on nuclear strategy was the writer Elie Wiesel, and to Moderator Ted Koppel's question of what should be done to prevent nuclear war, only he offered the answer that no expert, understandably, ever gives. Said Wiesel, "I don't know...
...Swedish native, Wiesel for nine years chaired Harvard's Committee on Higher Degrees in Medical Sciences. In 1982, he abandoned his chairmanship to devote more time to research...