Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparent end of apartheid in South Africa means the end of years of controversy for the University--a period marked by protests, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience. For those involved in the fight over Harvard's policies toward South Africa during the heyday of that country's all-white regime, the scars of a bygone era will be hard to erase...
...struggle began to peak in 1985, when agroup of concerned Harvard graduates joined forcesto form Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid(HRAAA). The group's vision, critics often said,could be summed up in a single word: divestment...
...installation, perhaps as soon as the middle of October, will definitively mark the end of 45 years of white rule. "It is a historic moment," said Cyril Ramaphosa, secretary-general of the African National Congress. "This is one of the final steps in bringing down the edifice of apartheid...
...Democracy has called for an international boycott of Nigerian oil until a democratic government takes office, even though that would push the economy into an even deeper slough. "We were advocates of total economic sanctions in South Africa, and we believe the sanctions were the main reason why apartheid is giving way to democracy there," says Chima Ubani, the Campaign for Democracy's general secretary. "It should be no different for Nigeria. It will place hardship on the people, but there is no freedom without sacrifice...
Another brilliant piece takes the form of a wide-eyed homage to a gorgeous campus activist. "She burns incense and listens to the Doors and everyone at Smith respects her strong opinions and clear insights into these times." At an anti-apartheid rally, the activist berates the crowd, "We've got to tear this world apart, we've got to recall a more causative day and spark the fire of revolution once again. I am so fucking mad'...and in her fury she jumped two stories and tore her jeans in all the right places. All the girls screamed...