Word: apartheid
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...misunderstanding of himself. Smaller, more delicately featured than he appears in photographs, the President nurses a Scotch and cannot resist complaining. He feels Mandela has upstaged him in Norway and maligned him in general. He, the son and grandson of National Party leaders who helped erect the artifice of apartheid, has traveled further from his heritage than anyone could have predicted. He has dismantled the past and prepared his nation for democracy. And what does he hear from Mandela, the A.N.C. and others? That he is a foot dragger, unconcerned with the injustices and violence suffered by blacks...
Beating AIDS and extreme, stupid poverty, this is our moon shot. This is our civil rights struggle, our anti-apartheid movement. This is what the history books will remember our generation for--or blame us for, if we fail...
...country who are working hard to change the world.” Initially skeptical of what difference she could make in politics, Madigan was inspired by her work under late Senator Paul M. Simon, D-Ill. She later taught young women in South Africa and witnessed the effects of apartheid firsthand. She said that her time there motivated her “to pursue social justice and hopefully change the world for the better.” “This award will serve as a constant reminder to me to chart the right course,” Madigan said...
...Suddenly audiences could not be counted upon to treat a given wrestler automatically as a villain simply because he was identified as a Russian,” Cantor observes. And the World Wrestling Federation’s new bad-boy of the early 1990s, a pro-apartheid white South African character named Colonel DeBeers, failed to rouse audiences?...
...Iran will certainly argue in its defense at any security council showdown, Secretary Rice believes that won't wash: "Nobody trusts them." Referring to Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's speech to the United Nations Saturday, in which he accused the west of subjecting Iran to "nuclear apartheid" by declaring certain nuclear technologies off-limits to Iran, Rice said mockingly, "Maybe the whole world is wrong and we should all trust them but nobody does. And so their problem is they can argue all they want about what their rights are. The problem is they've gotten into a situation...