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Died. Walter Sisulu, 90, South African political activist, chief strategist of the African National Congress (ANC) and longtime jail mate of Nelson Mandela; in Johannesburg. Sisulu, son of a black domestic worker and a white railwayman, was a founding member of the ANC's armed wing. In 1963 a group of antigovernment activists were tried for planning acts of sabotage and antiapartheid revolution, for which Sisulu and Mandela were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sisulu spent the next 25 years incarcerated on the infamous Robben Island. "He has not been honored the way some of us have been... nevertheless, he stood...
...shows he’s trying to distance himself, and I think he’s been very successful in doing that,” says Fred O. Smith ’04, a council member who thought about running for vice president against Lee’s running mate Anne M. Fernandez...
While getting an edge in the entertainment industry wasn’t the main goal of all the hopefuls, neither was finding a soul mate. Eriq, 24, expressed a blasé attitude toward the possibility of actually meeting someone. “If it does happen, it does,” he says, shrugging...
...recalls fondly that he liked tying balloon swans, because swans mate for life...
...LIEBERMAN $3 mil. Al Gore's former running mate blames a late start for surprisingly low funds. That excuse only works once...