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...discourse of white opposition to apartheid. But the tenuous hope Coetzee expresses in Age of Iron for the survival of humanism despite the violence of South Africas transitional years (the late 80s and early 90s) seems to have been snuffed out in Disgrace. The novel is set in the current phase of the countrys violent and troubled history. On the one hand, it is a phase characterized by criminal brutality on the part of former victims of apartheid, and on the other hand, by the public admissions of guilt by the perpetrators of apartheid crimes in the forum...
...initiates of the press is Sarah Hulsey '01. Hulsey is a Linguistics concentrator, but she has always been attracted to the art of books. When she was a child, her mother used to entertain her by sewing pages together on a sewing machine. Hulsey's current projects, however, are much more advanced. She is collaborating this semester with poet Susannah Hollister '01 in creating a broadside of poems. In the spring, armed with a grant from the OFA, they will also print a book of ten to twelve of Hollister's poems in an edition of about fifty copies...
Rudeness is, of course, prevalent in our society. And whenever anyone writes about rudeness, the first and most obvious temptation is to declare the current period in history the nadir of incivility, the low point reached by mankind after years of tossing values over the side like Sam Adams hurling tea into the Boston Harbor...
...proclaimed "long-haired liberal" is thinking. Are his antics a campaign tactic? Or is this Dreyfus in his natural habitat? He could be the John McCain of the Undergraduate Council, exploiting his image as an out-and-out weirdo the same way McCain is capitalizing on the media's current fascination with his temper. Or he could be the Alan E. Keyes '72, with his outrageous allegations and proposals, pushed to the margins of an already marginal race. Dreyfus wants Harvard to regress 30 years to 1969 when students stormed University Hall. He wants the war-like atmosphere of those...
Shashi Tharoor--the UN's director of communication and special projects, and a senior aide to Secretary-General Kofi Annan--was scheduled to speak on "The United Nations in the New Millennium," but instead, as he freely admitted to his audience, he chose to focus on the current state of the organization...