Word: nelsons
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...foreign languages is not lost on Ronzone's peers. "He can't speak any language at all," laughs John Hammond, the Pistons' vice president of basketball operations. "Yet he travels to these obscure places and builds lasting relationships with all kinds of people. It's amazing." Adds Donn Nelson, the president of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks and one of Ronzone's old friends: "Tony's success is a tribute to his personality. He's just--I guess the word is unembarrassable...
...fortunes took a different turn when she became the first environmental campaigner - and the first African woman - to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Saturday, Maathai talked with TIME's Stephan Faris under a tree outside the offices of her Green Belt Movement in Nairobi. KOFI ANNAN, NELSON MANDELA, MOTHER TERESA, AND NOW YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL? It is the kind of thing that I'm sure will sink in slowly. But right now, it's like a dream. When you are involved, you actually don't have time to evaluate the impact of your work. WHAT...
Loeb’s latest book is an anthology of anecdotes by the likes of Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Tony Kushner and Pablo Neruda. The general theme? Apparently ordinary citizens can make an extraordinay difference...
Loeb mingled historical story-telling with his discussion of recent events. He reminded his listeners of Nelson Mandela’s limited means of keeping hope alive during his 27-year captivity, when he and fellow prisoners continued with such small acts of hope as passing from cell to cell a forbidden scrap of newspaper that an absent-minded guard had dropped on the floor. Or Rosa Parks’ long-time involvement in local civil rights projects long before her famous refusal to move to the back...
While the Nelson household arrangement is unusual, it is nonetheless a sign of the times. Slowly, reluctantly, housework, the grubby stepchild of family responsibilities, is being adopted by men and shared a bit more equitably by couples. "There are few households in which [the division of labor] can be called equal," says Susan Strasser, author of Never Done: A History of American Housework, "but it's certainly the case that men do much, much more housework than they did 30 years ago." New data from the Labor Department show that among married men and women ages 25 to 54, women...