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...both a Harvard student and a lifelong resident of the area, my lifetime here includes the Boston Miracle, and StreetSafe Boston’s remarkable similarity to action at the time of the miracle promises success...
Born into white privilege in an increasingly racist society, Helen Suzman, who died Jan. 1 at 91, was a lifelong contrarian. She served in South Africa's Parliament from 1953 to 1989, fighting her government's repression of the country's black majority and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and his fellow antiapartheid fighters. From 1961 to 1974, it was a battle she fought alone as the Parliament's sole anti-apartheid member...
Helen Suzman, who was buried Sunday after dying at 91, was a lifelong contrarian. Born into white privilege in a society that was becoming progressively more racist, she served as a lawmaker in South Africa's parliament from 1953 to 1989, fighting government repression of the country's black majority and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and his fellow anti-apartheid fighters. For 13 years, from 1961 to 1974, it was a battle she fought alone as the sole anti-apartheid member of South Africa's parliament...
...A.N.C. and the party split in two. In a general election due in a few months, the A.N.C. will face its most formidable array of opposition parties to date. It is a development that would undoubtedly please Suzman. Even so, her passing - and the memory of her lifelong struggle as peaceful objector - casts all of today's South African politicians in a less than flattering light. Even faced with a stronger opposition, few doubt that the next South African president will be Jacob Zuma, the A.N.C. president, and a man who has been tried and acquitted of rape...
...opportunities, you must open your mind to all possibilities around the world. More important, he showed us that if you want to be successful in any endeavor, particularly investing, you need to keep an open mind and be willing to learn. His investment career spanned five decades, but his lifelong devotion was to spiritual concerns and philanthropy. While Sir John was famous as a financial-industry legend and visionary, we knew him as a man of strong principles and wisdom, but more important, as a loving father to his children and friend to all who worked with him. His greatest...