Word: mandelas
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...better is a 21st century kind of philanthropy, quite different from setting up hospitals and libraries. But Ibrahim has touched a chord. He has backing from a host of luminaries, including Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and former Irish President Mary Robinson. Nelson Mandela endorses the idea too: "This will allow Africans to measure their leaders against the highest standards of good governance," he says "It is appropriate that this will be the largest prize in the world. Nothing is more important. It aims to deliver the biggest prize of all: helping to ensure...
...outspoken and compelling figure 12 years after his nonviolent activism helped abolish apartheid. Earlier this month, he marked his 75th birthday with the release of his authorized biography, Rabble-Rouser for Peace. Tutu talked with TIME's Sonja Steptoe about aging, the divisions in the Anglican Church and Nelson Mandela's questionable sense of style...
...TIME: You and Nelson Mandela have quibbled over fashion in the past. For the record, who's the better dresser? Tutu: Modesty prevents me from saying what I really think. But... his sartorial taste is the pits! [Laughs] He's such a lovely guy, but he was nasty to me when I publicly commented on it. He said the critique was pretty amusing coming from a man who wears a dress...
...problem is not, however, managerial. Those crying out for an Iraqi Mandela to reconcile sectarian foes in pursuit of the greater good - or even an Iraqi Mubarak, the benign authoritarian leader of Egypt who enforces stability with an iron hand - may not have noticed that the forces unleashed and empowered by the U.S. invasion and its democratic aftermath render both options unlikely...
...Iraq's ethnic and religious breakdown would actually require more than one Mandela to hold the country together. But leaders reaching out across sectarian and ethnic lines have not fared well in Iraqi democracy. The secular democrats were heavily defeated in the first post-Saddam election, and were further marginalized in the second as Iraqis voted almost exclusively on religious and ethnic lines...