Word: nelson
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Lacking the fanfare that Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela enjoyed last week, Chris Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong, nevertheless met a small but enthusiastic audience when he spoke yesterday afternoon in Science Center...
...welcomed Nelson Mandela with open arms and roaring cheers. We sang for him, we laughed for him and we (almost) cried...
...attended the Convocation for Nelson Mandela's honorary degree Friday, and I was struck by Harvard's apparent loss of institutional memory regarding the South African struggle. I am writing to jog that memory...
There is little doubt that Nelson Mandela is a great man, worthy of our utmost praise and hence, an honorary degree from Harvard. Yet why have all the special degree recipients been male politicians? Surely there have been scientists, entertainers, humanitarians or teachers (and maybe even female ones) who have contributed as much or more to humanity...
...even if the timing of these special ceremonies is motivated only by the recipients' schedules, it is all too easy to place these men in a special category. The headline in The Crimson announcing Mandela's visit read "Nelson Mandela to Receive Rare Harvard Honor." Mandela did not really receive a rare honor--many others have received honorary degrees each year. He just received this honor at a rare time of the year. Yet we are now led to think of Mandela in a triad of great men with Washington and Churchill...