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Nieman NotesLife News Service in Washington, coveringthe Eisenhower, Kennedy andJohnson administrations. He movedfrom the position of Washington bureauchief to vice president of TimeInc. and, after 1982, he was a publicpolicy consultant to Time.During his career, Steele wrote onjournalism and public affairs and collaboratedon the book “The PrivatePapers of Senator Vandenberg.” HeNieman Foundation AnnouncesInternational Fellows for 2001-02Twelve international journalistswere appointed to the 64th class ofNieman Fellows at Harvard University.Their names, countries of residence,and interests follow:Waziri Adio, Lagos, Nigeria, editorialboard member of This Day newspaper;the nexus between the press,politics and sustainable development.Owais Aslam Ali, Karachi, Pakistan,chairman of Pakistan Press International;influences of international developmentin Pakistan and the region.Chiba-Nieman Fellow; funding providedby the Atsuko Chiba Foundation.Dejan Anastasijevic, Belgrade,Yugoslavia, senior journalist for Vremeweekly; military structures in contemporaryethnic conflicts and the issuesof democratic consolidation.Kavi Chongkittavorn, Bangkok,Thailand, managing editor of The Nation;humanitarian laws and the developmentof East Asia since the end ofthe Cold War. Partial funding providedby The Asia Foundation.Yuan Feng, Beijing, China, assistantto the chief editor of ChinaWomen’s News; gender and women’sissues as China makes the transitioninto a market-oriented society.David B. Green, Jerusalem, Israel,senior editor/writer at The JerusalemReport; Israel and the Crusades—howthe medieval wars have had an impacton the Arab-Israeli conflict today.Rami Khouri, Amman, Jordan, syndicatedcolumnist and freelance TVwas a commentator on NBC, CBS, theBBC, the CBC, and a moderator andpanelist for the Voice of America.Steele is survived by his wife, Louise,a daughter and two sons.—1966—and radio host; the links between religion,identity, national history, andgovernance systems.Agnes Nindorera, Bujumbura,Burundi, producer at Studio Ijambo;the evolution, since the end of theCold War, of social economy, internationallaw, and human rights in Africa.Paule Robitaille, Mexico City,Mexico, Latin America bureau chief forCanadian Broadcasting Corporation;the causes of civil wars and revolutionsand the consequences of civil conflict,the effectiveness of conflict manage.Martin Wise Goodman CanadianNieman Fellow; funding provided bythe Goodman Trust in Canada and theGoodman Fund in the United States.Geraldo Samor, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, correspondent for ThomsonInternational/International FinancingReview; the economics of internationalfinancial markets and impacts on localeconomies and development.Giannina Segnini, San Jose, CostaRica, investigative unit coordinator, LaNación; financial markets and informationtechnology and their impact oneconomic and human rights. KnightLatin American Fellow; funding providedby the John S. and James L. KnightFoundation.Jabulani Sikhakhane, Rosebank,South Africa, editor at large, FinancialMail; the impact of South Africa’s reentryinto global markets since democraticelections in 1994. Funding providedby The United States-South AfricaLeadership Development Program. ■Ralph Hancox was awarded theChancellor’s Distinguished ServiceAward at Simon Fraser University, BritishColumbia, on February 16, for hisrole in advancing the Canadian publishingindustry’s support for the CanadianCentre for Studies in Publishing.Hancox, who has been a journalist,editor, a publisher and publishing consultant,retires this year after five yearsas a professional fellow and visitingprofessor at SFU’s Master of Publishingprogram. The Reader’s Digest Associationof Canada, of which Hancox wasonce president and CEO, is to fund aprofessional fellow for the program inHancox’s name.—1974—Morton Kondracke has written abook to tell the story of his wife, Milly,who was diagnosed with Parkinson’sdisease in 1987. “Saving Milly: Love,Politics and Parkinson’s Disease” isabout their love, their efforts to managethe debilitating effects of that diseasesince her diagnosis, and of his eyeopeningexperiences as an advocatefor Parkinson’s research.In an article in The Washington PostMagazine in June, Kondracke wrote,“Ever since Milly was diagnosed withParkinson’s, the nation’s leading neurologistshave been saying that thisdisease could be cured within 10 years.They still say that, but Milly’s time isrunning out.” A long-time Washington,D.C. journalist and commentator andcurrently co-host of Fox TV’s “BeltwayBoys,” Kondracke has increasinglyfound himself on an unfamiliar side ofpolitics—advocacy—as his wife’s conditionhas worsened. Beginning in 1993with a visit to the Clinton’s, theKondrackes have fought to increasefederal funding for Parkinson’s diseaseresearch, and in doing so have had todeal with a convoluted “disease politics”web of activist groups competingfor federal allocations, hotly debatedissues such as stem cell research, andthe politicians whose votes may determinewhether a cure is found yearssooner, or years later.In articles and interviews, Kondrackeis as forthcoming about his politicalefforts as his enduring devotion to Milly.Though the first 20 years were quitedifferent from the past 13, KondrackeNieman Reports / Fall 2001 113