Word: capes
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South African President Nelson Mandela named fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu to head a commission that will investigate political crimes committed under apartheid. "Tutu is a very good choice for the post," reports TIME's Peter Hawthorne from Cape Town. "He has shown himself to be on the side of truth, and shouldn't hold any longstanding bitterness during the hearings the commission will hold. He's also not afraid of controversy, even if that includes going against Mandela himself. For example, Tutu was critical of Mandela's handling of the situation in Nigeria, when the playwright...
Adam B. Stein '99 led cheers, started waves and mugged for the crowd, bedecked in an all-red costume featuring a Trojan-style helmet and a cape emblazoned with a large...
...never too early to start booking rooms for the Olympics, so here are the 10 cities on the IOC's short list for the Summer Olympics in 2004: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Stockholm, Rome, Seville, Istanbul, Cape Town, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) and a yet-to-be-determined city in France...
Although less than half of the votes have been counted, early returns show that South Africa will have broad-based political representation after the first all-race local elections in the country's history. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports from Cape Town: "The general trend is that the vote is going pretty much the same as the general election, meaning that the ANC is gaining most of the seats. But a surprise seems to be the number of black independent candidates who are winning local races. It appears that many blacks are disillusioned with the pace of change coming from...
...scheduled performances began around 6:30 p.m. The first act featured, Elmer Fudd and a strikingly tall Bugs Bunny in drag. Bugs wore a faux fur bikini top and bottom, a faux fur cape, waist-length blond braids, and a Viking helmet with horns...