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...with joy that we watched as Harvard honored President Nelson Mandela and the new democratic regime elected by all the people of South Africa. Our joy is for the South African people who have removed their oppressors from power, dismantled apartheid and begun rebuilding their country without violence in the spirit of truth and reconciliation...
...This is just completely different from when Nelson Mandela or Kofi Annan came to speak to us," she said. "With them, I knew about the lectures because of word of mouth. But no one was even talking about Whoopi coming to speak...
...Oliver said. Glowing with happiness, Jenny adds, "He's the best person I've ever met and I miss him when I'm not with him." Oliver agrees, with one reservation, "I don't know if Jenny is the best person I've ever met. I did hear Nelson Mandela...
...tremendously exciting-the event of the year," said Harry R. Lewis '68, dean of the College. "Well, Nelson Mandela's okay, too," he joked...
...every apartheid-era violation is a gut-wrenching chronicle of evil's violent banality. Little will change as a result of the report; even the recommendation of prosecution for those who failed to seek amnesty for specific violations -- such as former president P.W. Botha and former first lady Winnie Mandela -- is unlikely to be deemed politically or legally expedient. But its impact shouldn't be underestimated: "Everybody knew the process would be imperfect," says TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne. "But the impact of revealing the dark secrets of the past has been profound -- nobody in South Africa has been...