Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several women have been expelled or have bolted from Mandela House. One was a mother whose legs Thomas held in the hospital all night while she was giving birth. Two weeks later, the woman suddenly left with her baby. "I felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach," Thomas says. "For the first time, I cried...
When Winnie Mandela defied the government's orders and returned to Soweto from banishment in the Orange Free State three years ago, she was hailed by millions of her fellow South Africans as the Mother of the Nation. Idolized by the township's teenagers, she was carried on their shoulders into political funerals and was constantly surrounded on the streets by dancing youngsters chanting "Man-del-a, Man-del-a." To much of the outside world she became the grande dame of the South African revolution, a worthy surrogate for her husband Nelson, the imprisoned black nationalist leader. But Winnie...
...After losing a 1982 run for the Senate to San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, he dropped out of politics and set off on the political equivalent of a penitent's sojourn in the desert. He went to Mexico to learn Spanish, studied Zen meditation in Japan and worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. "I had such a negative reputation that every time I stood up someone would call me Moonbeam," Brown explains. "I felt I had to absent myself for a while, expiate for my political sins...
...negative feedback," says he. "I can absorb a lot of flak that would otherwise go to our candidates." The most organized opposition to Brown came from women's groups concerned about abortion rights. A pro-choice Governor, the former Jesuit seminary student did an about-face after working for Mother Teresa. Last year he told an interviewer, "The killing of the unborn is crazy." He also wrote a letter to Florida penal authorities urging the release of a jailed antiabortion crusader. During the campaign, Brown tried to defuse the issue by reassuring pro-choice opponents that whatever his personal feelings...
Children from these homes may be able to read a clock, but that does not mean they understand time. Norton found that most of her young subjects scored lower than average on seriation tests, which measured their abilities to understand sequences of events. The less a mother had talked to her child about time over the years, the worse the youngster performed on the tests...