Word: natale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beethoven string quartet. But the overriding tone of the festivities is pure glitz, in which an illuminated gas-filled plastic rainbow will arch 600 feet across the Charles River from Harvard's campus in Cambridge to Boston. Along the riverbank, a larger-than-life marionette of the university's natal benefactor, John Harvard, will prance to the music of a female samba group called the Batucada Belles. Saturday night the fete will peak in a pyrotechnical dazzle put on by Tommy Walker, who helped stage the finale of the Statue of Liberty centenary. Skyrockets will spell out the name JOHN...
...paradoxes: an independent judiciary housed within an authoritarian state. Yet at various times over the past four decades, South Africa's courts have challenged the government in an effort to protect the civil liberties of the country's black majority. Last week, as a three-judge panel of the Natal Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the state of emergency, the world saw a bold example of a maverick judicial system in action...
...faith, and ordered his release. A week later a three-judge Supreme Court panel in Durban set aside parts of the emergency regulations, charging that the sections dealing with "subversive statements" were a "lot of nonsense." Then came last week's ruling invalidating all detentions in parts of Natal province...
Last month Buthelezi opened a historic indaba, or meeting, between whites and blacks to discuss guidelines for creating in his home state of Natal the country's first completely multiracial government. If the proposals are ever accepted, Buthelezi, who has steadfastly refused government offers of independence for KwaZulu, the territory within Natal designated as the Zulu homeland, could become provincial governor, the first black ever to hold such a post. Some observers suggest that the innovative power-sharing plan could serve as a model for the country as a whole. Indeed, if apartheid were to be totally dismantled and black...
Michaelhouse, Natal: Internship--someoneto teach, coach sports, and assist with culturalactivities (Dolf Berle is current intern...