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...going to "do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity." And that's a tall order - I mean, we all know your putting skills are getting better, and that your long game is unparalleled, but Earl's talking about you edging out Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. for first place in the all-time fantastic person sweepstakes. So as you contemplate that little task, I wanted to send you a few pointers that may smooth your path to all-encompassing greatness...
That turned out to be Soulforce. For six years, White steeped himself in the confrontational nonviolence taught by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He courted the heirs and icons of his newfound field--Gandhi's grandson Arun, King's daughter Yolanda and his strategist James Lawson--and they joined him in Cleveland, along with several hundred multidenominational gays, lesbians and transgendered persons wearing T shirts emblazoned with THIS DEBATE MUST END--WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN TOO. Of these, 191 helped White block a Convention Center exit and went to jail, an act of "redemptive suffering" intended...
...over your shoulder because somebody wants to kill you." And it's not as if 34-year-old Bashar has exactly coveted the job, telling anyone who'd listen until a few months ago that he harbored no presidential ambitions. But in a scenario eerily reminiscent of India's Gandhi family - in which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira's preferred heir, Sanjay, died in a plane crash - Bashar may have had no choice after his elder brother, Basil, died in a car crash. Like Rajiv Gandhi, Bashar had been educated in Britain before returning home to reluctantly...
...woman about to give birth that she should have an operation, it might have meant something else altogether. It might have been surgery to have her Fallopian tubes cut so she could never have another child. Even though family planning had a bad reputation after the abandonment of the Gandhi government's coercive vasectomy program in the 1970s, states like Tamil Nadu still set birthrate targets and quietly instructed health-care workers to urge patients to be sterilized. The policy was often aimed at women rather than men. In fact, nurses earned bonuses based on how many sterilizations they encouraged...
...tapper, collecting latex from the Amazon's trees. Yet Chico Mendes became Brazil's environmental conscience. He not only organized his fellow tappers into a rural workers' union but also formed them into human barriers whenever chain saws and bulldozers threatened the rain forest that was their livelihood. Mendes' Gandhi-like tactics brought him global acclaim--and enemies. A week after celebrating his 44th birthday with his children and his wife Ilza, shown with his picture, he was cut down by ranchers' bullets...