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Nelson Mandela, fresh from an adulation-filled trip to London, got royal treatment of a different order when Michael Jackson showed up at his 78th birthday party. Oddly, Jackson didn't join in during the singing of Happy Birthday. No loss for Mandela, who likes to dance (he does a mean toyi-toyi) but whose taste leans more toward '50s township music than...
...willing--to argue any side of a political issue in order to win, a telling trait his buddy Clinton has also been accused of possessing. At the same time, no amount of accommodation seems to placate Southern conservatives. Last week Congressman Nathan Deal of Georgia became the nation's 78th elected Democrat to become a Republican since Clinton's election, and others are expected to follow suit or to quit rather than make the switch. "Democrats have gotten over denial, and now they are in shock about their future," concludes James Thurber, a political scientist at American University. "And their...
Shumka came off the bench to score three goals--the last an overtime game-winner--in one of his team's biggest games of the year: a 3-2 overtime win over Dartmouth. Shumka scored in the 75th and 78th minutes of regulation and again at 7:43 of overtime after entering the game with about 25 minutes left...
Luzak's last chance comes tomorrow, as the Elis (0-1-0 Ivy, 2-1-0 overall) come to Cambridge for the 78th meeting between the two Ivy rivals (2 p.m. at Ohiri Field...
Those actions will depend on the behavior of Mandela and the A.N.C. In its 78th anniversary message from Lusaka last week, the A.N.C. urged an intensification of the armed struggle against the South African government. Privately, however, A.N.C. officials admitted that they had reduced their military operations and that if De Klerk delivered a reasonable package of reforms, they would be prepared to talk about talks...