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...impediment. ''If I start defending myself on that,'' De Klerk says, hunching forward in his chair and clenching his teeth, ''I would also have to go on the attack.'' The mutual bitterness and resentments between De Klerk and Mandela are palpable. How could these two have agreed on anything -- lunch, for instance, much less the remaking of a nation? In one sense, the answer is simple. Mandela and De Klerk perfectly meet the first precondition of peacemakers: they do not like each other very much. Harmony is only intermittently an issue between friends; the intractable messes of human coexistence...
...opted for the rebel over Mr. Right. There was a second musician: we discussed spirituality over Chinese take-out and watched reruns of “The Simpsons” while analyzing Shakespeare. He wrote existentialist poetry, listened to the Grateful Dead, and taught me to skateboard during our lunch hour. I managed to keep this crush in class by tutoring him before exam period and taking extra notes in math, a positive influence that only went so far: a physics teacher soon caught him shooting construction workers with a B.B. gun and his spring break became a permanent vacation...
...junior senator, served as the Democratic standard-bearer in 2004 and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1985. He is widely believed to be harboring presidential aspirations for 2008. Kerry first met with students yesterday at the Institute of Politics, where he had a short lunch with a group of twelve first-years from Isaacs’ freshmen seminar, “American Presidential Campaigns and Elections 1960–2004.” The event was closed to reporters, but according to Isaacs and students who were present, Kerry mostly spoke about the process of running...
...Health Service. "He is always pushing the boundaries, he wants to go further," says farm manager Wilson. "And he takes a very long view." His communications director, Paddy Harverson, says Charles "works ferociously hard." Last year he had 501 public engagements and wrote 2,300 letters. He never eats lunch (but likes an evening martini, straight up). The directors of his charities receive regular calls (no e-mails, he doesn't use a computer) and notes they call "black spiders" because of his handwriting. "The interest he takes in whether these charities make a difference is intense," says Polly Courtice...
...asked to look into the Niger trip, told Libby on June 12 about the identity of Wilson's wife ? LIBBY'S CIA BRIEFER Who discussed Joseph and Valerie Wilson and the Niger trip with Libby on June 14 ? PRESS SECRETARY ARI FLEISCHER Who learned from Libby over lunch on July 7 about the identity of Wilson's wife...