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Later, while Mandela is being interviewed by Khulu Sibiya, a prominent black journalist, a phone call comes in from former President P.W. Botha. The last of the country's hard-line Afrikaner leaders, Botha for years refused to release Mandela from jail. He is famous for his bullying manner, and before taking the call, Mandela jokes, "Fortunately, I am quite a distance away, so he won't wag a finger at me." On the line, Mandela is respectful and speaks to Botha in Afrikaans. The conversation is off the record. After hanging up, Mandela calls his two junior partners...
...foppery comes from Lord Brounker (Mike Efron). An envoy to the King, he brings both good and bad news to Sir John. Fabulously beribboned in pink, Brounker is a starlet who wags his opulence in the face of the sick and the desperate. Literally a pink triangle, his effeminate manner and costuming furnish a witty reminder of the politics of our own age. Efron brings just the right delicate edge to make his performance stand...
...strange turn of events that highlighted the Crimson's struggles, sophomore Ed Boyda disqualified himself for playing a water hazard in an improper manner. Upon realizing the gaffe, Boyda turned himself in to tournament officials...
Serving the community encourages good will on all sides, and could only influence the game in a positive manner...
...always easy. Buckley and her colleagues use old photos of the Union to decide "what's truly traditional and sacred and what's not...different people have different concepts of what belongs." The ornate mirrors in the appropriately dubbed Mirror Room seem to have arrived in some mysterious manner; no one really understands how the huge plates of glass got into the room, but "the Fog wants nothing to do with them," according to Buckley. "They're really just over-romanticized Victorian frames that are starting to fall apart." Still, she might keep one in the Union just...