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Aspiring Qs would do well to think outside the box. Played most famously by Welshman Desmond Llewelyn, the fictional Q was nothing if not a dreamer. Yet not everything the Bond technician dreamt up became standard issue. 007 never did get to try out the couch, showcased in The Living Daylights, that swallowed up anyone who sat on it. The spy also managed without the telephone box equipped with air bags able to crush anyone inside it. And we never heard a sound out of the exploding alarm clock - "guaranteed," Q said in License to Kill, "never to wake...
Zuma, who portrays himself as an outsider, capitalized on that discontent to depose the previous leadership of the ANC and former President Thabo Mbeki. But not everyone is convinced. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for one, says he will not vote ANC this time around, saying it has betrayed the hope of the Mandela years...
...party split in November when a group of disaffected members formed a breakaway group, the Congress of the People (COPE), and old friends are turning on it. Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu refuses to vote for the ANC, saying it has betrayed Nelson Mandela's legacy. Helen Suzman, a prominent white antiapartheid campaigner, called its performance an "enormous disappointment" a few months before her death on New Year...
...South Africa Tibet Tussle The South African government barred the Dalai Lama from attending a March 27 Johannesburg peace conference, citing the spiritual leader's tense relations with China but denying it was pressured by Beijing. Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and F.W. de Klerk protested by pulling out of the event, a walk-up to the 2010 World Cup. Organizers subsequently canceled the conference...
...recent address to the World Tamils Forum in London, the American civil-rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson reiterated the right to self-determination and the importance of an immediate ceasefire before any political solutions can follow. Similar expressions of concern uttered by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as the president of East Timor and Noble Peace laureate José Ramos-Horta, remain meaningless to the government of Sri Lanka, which considers the systematic subjugation of Tamils the only solution to decades of racial tension...