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...Billboard world-music chart in a matter of days. Then came sold-out tours of the U.S., Europe and Asia; Grammies for their next two albums, Blessed and African Spirit; concerts and recordings with stars like Bono and Robert Plant; and private shows for Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela. So great was the demand that the choir has taken on 20 more singers and split into two, enabling it to plan simultaneous tours of the U.S. and Europe for later this year...
...Nobody could know in advance how they were going to behave,” he said. “Iraqi politicians could have chosen the way Nelson Mandela behaved in South Africa...
...from mutating into all-out ethnic war. Already in Kenya was Ban's predecessor, Kofi Annan, who is mediating negotiations between President Mwai Kibaki's government and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement of Raila Odinga, who claims that Kibaki's associates stole the vote through massive vote rigging. Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, who is a U.N. expert on humanitarian issues as well as a former First Lady of Mozambique, has flown in to help bring the parties together. Former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mpaka is here, Ghana's President John Kufuor came and went, and South Africa's Cyril...
...snag in the idea is that taxing web use is widely stigmatized as a sure way to stunt economic growth. "Generally speaking, taxing the Internet is considered a bad idea, and a potential brake to net use and development," says Audrey Mandela, founder of the independent London consulting agency Mandela Associates. "But without knowing the details of the French proposal, it's difficult to say how problematic an Internet tax there would...
...people most likely to balk at tax-increased Internet prices are new users who figure if it's getting more expensive, they can keep doing without it," Mandela says. But with annual French internet access increasing by nearly 14% per year - and by more than 22% for fast connections - Sarkozy may be banking on something his fellow cash-strapped leaders may also get hip to: internet access just isn't optional for most people any more. "These days, there just aren't many people who could respond to higher Internet prices by saying, 'Forget it, I'll just do without...