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...eight- city U.S. tour. For one brief, wistful moment, a city that had been pounded by a series of violent racial incidents seemed to vibrate with one voice shouting "Mandela!" More than 750,000 people lined the streets of lower Manhattan as Mandela sped by in a bulletproof glass chamber borne on a flatbed truck. At a rally on the steps of City Hall, Mandela was presented with the key to the city by Mayor David Dinkins, one of the five African-American mayors who will welcome him on his trip (a sixth, Marion Barry of Washington, will...
...Down on It followed the leader straight to the top. Both books still beam down on a world they analyze and celebrate. The author has not only remained popular with readers; he is also in demand on television and in concert halls. Last February he conducted the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony in the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth -- no mean accomplishment for a man who could not read a note. Next fall he will work with the same musicians in Suite for Kindergarten, a piece he commissioned. One PBS special was broadcast last Thanksgiving; another will air next year. Random...
...polling sample favor more sovereignty for Quebec. That sentiment has gained strength from the rise of a new French-speaking business class that in the past decade has largely replaced Quebec's old English-speaking elite. Says Ghislain Dufour, head of the Conseil du Patronat, the provincial chamber of commerce: "We're much more confident than we were ten years...
...conveys warmth." Feinstein learned much of her technique -- especially cadence and syncopation -- from a number of preachers in the black churches she often visits. Concludes state assembly speaker Willie Brown, who has known her for 30 years: "Dianne is as good a communicator as Ronald Reagan -- without the Chamber of Commerce jokes." To Feinstein, in fact, public performance is not a sideshow but something that cuts close to the heart of politics. "Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something that people want...
Martin Ryan, a manufacturer of artificial limbs, has talked to business owners about the bill at local Chamber of Commerce meetings. The cost of improvements can be kept down, he maintains, by building wooden ramps instead of concrete ones or simply attaching a buzzer on a front door. "Many business owners say, 'I don't have many disabled customers, so why should I build a ramp or widen my doorways or install a pull on the door of my store?' " says Ryan. "I just try to tell them it's a cost of doing business, and it's worthwhile...