Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marshall, Harvard's top lawyer since October 1992, is well-respected in Boston's legal community. She has worn many hats: anti-apartheid student activist, Boston Bar Association president and partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart, one of Boston's top firms, specializing in copyright and intellectual-property...
...African, Penelope Heyns, who broke her own world record in the 100-m breaststroke at 1:07.02 and went on to win a second gold in the 200-m event--the first swimming medals won by South Africa since it was barred from the Games for its policies of apartheid. As Amy Van Dyken says, "An underdog can have a vicious bite...
Still, for anyone who cares about TV news, the book is fascinating. The growth of Nightline paralleled the development of satellite broadcasting; by linking newsmakers worldwide, the show could not only report on but often become a participant in major news events. Nightline aired groundbreaking debates about South African apartheid and the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, the organizing of which were diplomatic feats almost as impressive as those later achieved at bargaining tables. Controversial figures, from Ferdinand Marcos to Lani Guinier, used the show as a platform to defend themselves; others, like former baseball executive Al Campanis, were undone...
...Apartheid was dismantled in 1994. Many South Africans remain concerned, though, about the continued racial imbalance in sport. Whites make up less than 15% of the population, but will probably fill 65 of the 80 slots on the 1996 Olympic team. "We are deeply involved in trying to develop talent from the black sector," says Sam Ramsamy, president of the National Olympic Committee. "By 2000 we will see more black athletes representing South Africa...
Daniels continues, "But then, I suppose that's his backup for implicitly declaring there are no vestiges of the legacy of slavery and Grand Apartheid still at work in American Society." I stated in my letter that "racism, repression and exploitation" continue. This fact does not make all whites guilty. Not only did I not "implicitly" make the declarations ascribed to me, I explicitly stated the contrary...