Word: mandela
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...company that has been shaping history, so to speak, since 1835, joins us in our endeavor. Madame Tussaud's, the most popular tourist attraction in London, has created a special TIME 100 exhibit featuring the likenesses of figures such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Beatles, Pablo Picasso, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom have been named in our TIME 100 issues: Leaders and Revolutionaries (April 13, 1998), Artists and Entertainers (June 8, 1998) and Builders and Titans (Dec. 7, 1998). The museum will incorporate...
...Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela have indeed resolved the Lockerbie deadlock, Washington faces a problem -- how to contain Muammar Ghaddafi. The British and South African leaders on Friday expressed confidence that a discreet South African diplomatic mission would coax Ghaddafi into surrendering for trial two Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am flight 103 -- which would end 10 years of sanctions. ?Ghaddafi?s refusal to cooperate gave the U.S. a reason to keep Libya boxed in,? says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. ?Those sanctions proved to be a critical factor in neutralizing one of the world?s most dangerous...
...Lockerbie breakthrough may be the enduring legacy of Blair?s South African trip, which has been shadowed by radical Islamic protests against the Iraq bombings and stern words from Mandela on the same issue. A trial in the Netherlands may bring closure to the Lockerbie families, but it will also end sanctions against Libya. And that will send Washington?s Libya policy wonks scurrying back to the drawing board...
...Mandela visited Harvard in September. He spokein Tercentenary Theatre and was awarded anhonorary degree...
...inspiring and an interesting follow-upto Mandela's own speech," Fisher said...