Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, as the University convenes a rare out-of-season honorary degree ceremony to honor Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president and first president since the end of the apartheid system, Tutu's wish has been fulfilled-though it took some prodding...
Throughout the '80s, Harvard professors for the most part avoided involvement with South Africa in protest of apartheid, and then-president Derek C. Bok was a vocal supporter of work by the U.S. to prompt reform in South Africa...
Mandela, a long-time leader of the AfricanNational Congress, spent 27 years in prison forhis anti-apartheid activities. In 1994, he waselected president of South Africa...
...Cape Town has seen worse, and a gentle city surrounded by the natural splendor of a mountain and two oceans isn't particularly prone to panic. Nelson Mandela's ANC was only ever partially successful in mobilizing residents of the notoriously lethargic city to take action against apartheid; Osama bin Laden's chances of turning Cape Town into an epicenter of global jihad are, at best, remote...
Fuller, a Toronto native, arrived in the U.S. nine years ago to reinvent the teen magazine YM, and was soon to develop a reputation for making magazines profitable by tarting them up. At the time, YM combined health and relationship advice with reporting on serious subjects such as apartheid (that topic was covered by current New Yorker writer William Finnegan). Fuller relieved the magazine of such weightiness, turning YM into a primer on waist trimming and boy procuring--a junior Cosmo--and more than doubling its circulation. At the real Cosmo, which she joined after a stint as editor...