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...absence of fear - it's inspiring others to move beyond it In 1994, during the presidential-election campaign, Mandela got on a tiny propeller plane to fly down to the killing fields of Natal and give a speech to his Zulu supporters. I agreed to meet him at the airport, where we would continue our work after his speech. When the plane was 20 minutes from landing, one of its engines failed. Some on the plane began to panic. The only thing that calmed them was looking at Mandela, who quietly read his newspaper as if he were a commuter...
...this particular sweaty sketch-fest is far removed from the blowouts I’ve hosted in my Kirkland suite or in the basement of my house in Queens. I’m in Seoul, but if it weren’t for the Korean welcome signs at the airport, I might never have guessed...
...already an example of the South Florida property boom gone bust - a stagnant pool waiting for fraud to fester. The Residences at Rookery Park was initially marketed in 2004 as three- and four-bedroom townhomes for under $250,000 in west Fort Lauderdale, within earshot of a busy executive airport, on a busy corridor and miles from the beach. As the market boomed, the townhomes' starting prices soared to $349,000. A former broker said the units sold quickly, but then closings languished and buyers sought to get out of their contracts. The corporation managing the property changed hands earlier...
...work--or what some might term insanity--paid off. Ivanovic was a promising but not phenomenal junior player. To fly to tournaments, Ivanovic and her mother Dragana took seven-hour bus trips to the Budapest airport, since there were no flights out of Belgrade. Because of Milosevic's war crimes, Serbians were often viewed with disdain. "We would say we were from Serbia, and people would look at you suspiciously," Ivanovic says. "They would pull you aside, and you could tell from the look in their face that they felt sorry for you. It was very frustrating...
...leadership is a target. Tsvangirai is arrested on a weekly, sometimes daily basis, and on June 12 MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti was detained at Harare airport and charged with treason. But it is lower-ranking activists and ordinary Zimbabweans who have borne the brunt. The MDC claims 25,000 people have fled the violence, thousands of its supporters have been beaten, hundreds hospitalized, and 66 killed, while 200 more are missing. (Reporting restrictions mean the figures cannot be verified.) A doctor who examined the bodies of two dead MDC activists tells TIME their tongues had been mutilated. In Bhegedhe...