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...been to a lot of funerals in South Africa,” she explains, “and I was using earth colors that reminded me of the red dirt of home.” She then expanded into painting historic sites like Robin Island, where Nelson Mandela was exiled. These paintings, she says, “represented a past regime that my father lived through, something that is a part of my history but that I didn’t live through...
...people believe in a God who is quite particular about which religion is right, and by the fourth episode God alludes to having told Noah to build the Ark. But mostly Arcadia espouses the little-c catholicism captured in its credits, which juxtapose images of the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Bob Dylan: as long as you believe there's an answer blowin' in the wind, you're on the side of the angels...
...cause AIDS, and the medicine could kill you. He also had a legitimate issue: South Africa had given out anti-TB medicine without a proper protocol and they wound up spawning some more virulent, drug-resistant strains." But by the time Clinton was in Johannesburg in July for Nelson Mandela's 85th birthday, Mbeki had come around. "He said, 'You'll promise me these drugs will be administered with the same high quality that the [National Institutes of Health] would use in America?' I said, 'I give you my word.' He said...
...this initiative get started? Last year, Nelson Mandela and I were asked to close the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona. While I was there, Denzil Douglas, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, came up to me and said, "We don't have a problem in the Caribbean of [AIDS] denial, we have a problem of capacity. We have neither the money nor the systems necessary to meet this challenge. Will you help us set up nationwide systems of care and treatment?" And I said, "Sure." I had no clue how I was going...
When did you know he was going to agree? I went [to Johannesburg] for President Mandela's 85th birthday party [last July]. Mbeki said to me, "Now, if I do this, you'll promise me that these drugs will be administered with the same high quality that the [National Institutes of Health] would use in America?" I said, "I give you my word." He said, "O.K., I'll do it." I give him all the credit. He was always trying to get back there . . . Now we're just waiting for the South African government to approve their final plan...