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When Michael Watts talks about the human, societal, and resource costs of extracting oil in Africa, it’s impossible to ignore the connection between the fuel in one’s tank and violence in the Niger Delta. Watts, author of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, is professor and Class of […]

91¾ÅÉ« senior Antonio Delgado of Schenectady, NY, is one of 32 students selected nationwide as Rhodes Scholars for 1999. Befitting the oldest and arguably the most prestigious international fellowship, Rhodes Scholars are selected through an exacting process of applications and interviews by which judges determine applicants’: literary and scholastic attainments; fondness for and success in […]