Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South Africa's ambassador to the United States praised Nelson Mandela's leadership and character while enthusiastically endorsing his country's president-elect in a speech last night in the Kennedy School of Government's (KSG) Starr Auditorium...
Franklin Sonn, the first U.S. ambassador from a democratic South Africa, used anecdotes to characterize Mandela's presidency as exceptionally principled. Toward the end of his talk, he offered a glowing vision of the future under Thabo Mbeki, the country's new president-elect...
...highest level where the most brainpower is required, they are conceptualizing, designing and facilitating the systems that others will execute. Some of us are learning now in order to go out later and do the same in other geographies, to provide the 900 million residents of India and Africa a chance to rise above their sub-human destitution. Those who remain in America are ensuring the continued quality of life of the 250 million here...
Harvard needs to apologize to the people of South Africa, as well as to generations of students and alums who tried to get the University to do the right thing at a time when it could have influenced events...
...immediate result of the discovery is that it solves a lingering puzzle. Similar spherical eggs have been recovered elsewhere in South America as well as in Europe, Africa, India and China, but no one could tell for sure what sort of dinosaur laid them. After examining the bones and distinctively shaped teeth of the fragmented embryos, some of which were close to hatching when they died, the researchers firmly identified them as a type of sauropod, kin to the familiar Brontosaurus (more accurately known as Apatosaurus) of comic-book fame. Had they survived, they would have been about...