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After being imprisoned for crusading against apartheid, Nelson Mandela spent countless hours splitting rocks on South Africa's Robben Island. Since 1949, some 50 million Chinese have passed through a system of prison camps known as laogai, which translates from Mandarin as "reform through labor." According to the Laogai Research Foundation, an organization devoted to chronicling the practice's atrocities, approximately 6 million Chinese are imprisoned in this vast system of forced-labor camps at any one time. Millions more have died while toiling in cramped, pestilential conditions with meager food rations...
...Legacy of 1989 Thanks for your double issue [June 29?July 6]. Twenty years ago I was a 5-year-old starting school. My world was untouched by violence, hatred and division and the only web I knew was Charlotte's Web. The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, Gorbachev and Mandela are of course familiar to me, but now I understand and appreciate the history, importance and indelible impact of these people and events. In 20 years' time I look forward to your issue on the significant events from 2009 that would shape our world. Obama's presidency? The global financial...
...Legacy of 1989 Thanks for your double issue [june 29 - July 6]. Twenty years ago I was a 5-year-old starting school. My world was untouched by violence, hatred and division and the only web I knew was Charlotte's Web. The Wall, Tiananmen Square, Gorbachev and Mandela are of course familiar to me, but now I understand and appreciate the history, importance and indelible impact of these people and events. In 20 years' time I look forward to your issue on the significant events from 2009 that would shape our world. Obama's presidency? The global financial crisis...
...lived," nor was it the Rev. Al Sharpton's assertion that Jackson's fame made a generation of white kids comfortable with electing a black President. It came before the encomiums and music began, after Motown singer Smokey Robinson took the stage, read testimonials from Diana Ross and Nelson Mandela, walked...
...government is changing Soweto is how Soweto is changing itself. Soweto is the crucible of South Africa's growing black middle class, a status that comes as no surprise: as the place where the uprisings that eventually overthrew apartheid began and as the former home of Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the township has long been at the forefront of change. Today shacks are being replaced by houses. Bars, restaurants and hotels are thriving. BMWs and Mercedeses clog the streets. Richard Maponya opened the glass-and-steel Maponya Mall on Soweto's main highway in 2007 with an ambition that...