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    [CBC Massey Lectures Series 2005]

    Part one of the broadcast lectures of "Race Against Time" can
    be heard at:
    http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/media/massey/2005massey.ram

    "Race Against Time" is published by House of Anansi House. The
    book can be ordered from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, cbcshop.ca,
    Chapters.Indigo.ca and anansi.ca



    Race Against Time

        by Stephen Lewis


    "I HAVE SPENT the last four years watching people die." With these
    wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005
    Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate
    plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique,
    personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing
    failure to help. Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations
    Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development
    Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health,
    and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with
    anecdotes ranging from maddedning to hilarious to heartbreaking,
    Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling
    desperately short of these golas.

    In "Race Against Time", Stephen Lewis probes the appalling gap
    between vision and current reality. But he also offers bracingly
    attainable solutions to hepl us avoid what will otherwise be a
    terrible stain on the record of human achievement in the twenty-first
    century.


    STENPHEN LEWIS is the UN Secretary-General's special envoy for
    HIV/AIDS in Africa, a commissioner on the World Health Organisation's
    Commission on Social Determinanats of Health, and director of the
    Stephen Lewis Foundation (www.stephenlewisfoundation.org). His
    extensive experience as a politician, diplomat, and humanitarian
    includes tenures as Canadian ambassador to the UN, special advisor
    on Africa to the UN Secretary-General, and deputy executive director
    of UNICEF. He was named "Maclean's" magazine's "Canadian of the Year"
    in 2003 and was listed by the "Time" magazine as one of the 100 most
    influential people in the world in 2005. He lives in Toronto, Canada.



    THE MASSEY LECTURES are a prestigious annual event in Canada, in which
    a noted Canadian or international scholar gives a week-long series of
    lectures on a political, cultural, or philosophical topic. The Series
    are co-sponsored by CBC Radio, House of Anansi Press, and Massey College
    in the University of Toronto. Some of the most famous Massey Lecturers
    have included Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, Noam Chomsky, Jane
    Jacobs, John Ralston Saul and Martin Luther King, Jr. The Series were
    created in 1961 to honour Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada.

    (Massey College is an elite interdisciplinary graduate college
    affiliated with, but independent from, the University of Toronto.)




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