Word: nelsoned
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...should fight for the liberation of other peoples from oppressive regimes. In the past, to put this idea into practice, we gave money to Russian and Ethiopian Jews who were immigrating to Israel. During the war in Bosnia, we sent money and clothes to the victims, and we supported Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and the end of apartheid in South Africa...
...South Africa, after the National Party refused for about the hundredth time to apologize for apartheid, Nelson Mandela said that it was the strong man who knew how to apologize. Did the pope ever seem more powerful and more merciful than when he apologized for the sins committed by the church against non-Catholics? Tony Blair showed strength in apologizing for the treatment of the Irish during the potato famine...
...Fraser, who is well known in the international community for his efforts to end apartheid in the early 1980s, told audience members that his greatest inspiration in life was Nelson Mandela, who he first met on a trip to South Africa...
...board the Bush plan and Rhode Island Republican Lincoln Chafee siding with the Democrats. Enter the back-scratching: Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords says he could bolt if Republicans don't give him a $180 billion plan to fully fund the federal share of education programs; Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson - as a narrowly elected red-state Democrat, a prime target for Bush blackmail - is talking to GOP leaders about farm programs. And Chafee may yet yield to the hard party sell: "The President feels strongly about it, and that was conveyed," Chafee said Monday...
...Dick Cheney to break the tie and the Democrats will find that their $60 billion gambit just got added on to the top of Bush's serving. But Bush would still prefer this to be a bipartisan-smelling victory, and he'll need to give up more than Nelson's farm programs for that. Maybe the estate tax repeal, maybe the reduction in the top income-tax bracket, maybe the trigger...