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...York society of the 1870s, Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a true romantic gentleman. He is romantic because he wants to shrug off the opera cape of domestic respectability and follow his heart to hell with the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). He is a gentleman because, having already declared his love to pretty May Welland (Winona Ryder), he is bound to behave honorably. He knows that when passion and propriety collide, only bitter defeat may rise from the wreckage...
When her Fulbright took her to Cape Town, she immersed herself in black South African culture. "She wanted to live among the people," says Bolich. Soon after arriving last fall, she was speaking Xhosa, dancing to the local jazz and spending nights with friends in the townships. Says Melanie Jacobs, her roommate, who is mixed-race: "She was color-blind and completely at home with us." At the University of the Western Cape, African National Congress legal expert and executive member Dullah Omar guided her research on women's issues and voter education. But her interests pulled her back...
Last Wednesday Biehl was preparing to leave Cape Town. She was to fly back to Stanford on Friday to begin doctoral studies. As she had done for months, Biehl offered some fellow students a lift back to their homes in the black townships. They piled into Biehl's mustard-colored Mazda, the one with the bumper sticker reading OUR LAND NEEDS PEACE. Around 5 p.m., as she drove into the township of Guguletu, a group of teenagers hurled stones at the car. Trapped behind another vehicle, Biehl was a sitting target for the brick that shattered her windshield...
That meant because she was white. There was confusion as to exactly which black political organization her killers were aligned with. On Wednesday the Cape townships swarmed with members of the Congress of South African Students, a group affiliated with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. In support of a national black teachers' strike, some of its members had initiated a campaign of violence and arson. But the "settlers" remark and a shirt allegedly worn by one of the attackers pointed toward the Pan-Africanist Students' Organization, a wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which coined the motto "One Settler...
...spokesman for the Pan-Africanist Congress in Johannesburg reacted differently, calling the crime an "abominable terrorist act." Cape Town's A.N.C. director dissociated his organization from the murder, and his group's national executive moved to rein in its own members' use of racist rhetoric and inflammatory slogans. As if to underscore the emptiness of such pledges, gunmen firing assault rifles on Friday wounded eight people -- whites and mixed-race -- traveling by luxury-bus from Cape Town to Johannesburg...