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PERFORMER: WILLIE NELSON...
There are many people of color who have made tremendous achievements, who would be ideal Commencement speakers, and who not capouse views that deny the right of an oppresses group: California Representative Maxine Waters, Nelson Mandela, Professor Anita Hill and Coretta Scott King are just a few examples...
...June 1978 he went to Atlantic City, where the first casino had just opened. "I had never seen anything like it," he says. "It made Caesars Palace on New Year's Eve look like it was closed for lunch." Wearing shorts, sandals and a Willie Nelson T shirt, he walked down the Boardwalk to the old Strand Motel; less than an hour later, he walked out having agreed to buy it for $8.5 million in cash. Wynn razed the Strand and built the 506-room Golden Nugget, which quickly exceeded by 50% the revenues it was projected to make based...
That same afternoon, African National Congress president Nelson Mandela called for discipline and restraint, warning that further violence could derail negotiations aimed at democratic reforms and ultimately play into the hands of the murderer (a Polish immigrant has been accused of the killing). "I understand your anger," said Mandela, but "we want you to remember that as a government in waiting, you have the responsibility to behave orderly and with dignity...
...sending his condolences, President De Klerk appealed to black leaders to keep their followers under control. In a rare nationally televised address, Nelson Mandela replied with an exhortation of his own: "This killing must stop. We must not permit ourselves to be provoked. Let us respond with dignity...