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...DIED. Hilda Bernstein, 91, white, middle-class illustrator turned antiapartheid activist and founding member of the multiracial Federation of South African Women; in Cape Town, South Africa. Bernstein and her husband Rusty, who was tried for treason alongside friend Nelson Mandela and acquitted, fled police harassment in 1964, settling in Britain. She returned only after Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected President. "The meaning of life," she said, "is a choice you make about the way you live...
DIED. Hilda Bernstein, 91,white, middle-class illustrator turned antiapartheid activist and founding member of the influential, multiracial Federation of South African Women; in Cape Town, South Africa. Bernstein and her husband Rusty, who was tried for treason alongside friend Nelson Mandela and acquitted, fled in 1964 amid harassment by police, settling in Britain. Only after Mandela had served as the first democratically elected President did the widowed activist return to South Africa. "The meaning of life," she said, "is a choice you make about the way you live...
...professors, and the best academic experiences. So basically: read The Confi Guide and you’ll get laid! Just kidding. But we may help you choose your courses or pick a concentration. Or at the very least, before you throw us away, check out the picture of Nelson Mandela shaking Barney’s hand on page 10. We think it’s kinda funny. * This write-up is based on a response rate of less than 70 percent...
...antipathy towards George W. Bush, the incumbent Uncle Sam. Saudis, Swedes and Kiwis can hate Dubya, and thus protest against his folly in Iraq, while consuming the riches of U.S. commerce and culture. Some lands have the splendid fortune of a dignified presence to represent them: South Africa's Mandela, Brazil's P?l? and the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II. Others are stuck with rogues like Saddam, Gaddafi, Castro and Venezuela's Chavez...
...Karzai: This is a very important question. Look. I want to leave a legacy for this country. A legacy of democratic transitions. Of power from one person to another. Nelson Mandela set a very good example of completing his four years term and not doing it again. Had he wanted to stand again he would have definitely won. South Africans would have voted for him. But he wanted to set an example of democratic transitions and of new generations emerging. My worry for Afghanistan is whether we will have leaderships emerging in this country to carry on the task...