Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this initiative get started? Last year, Nelson Mandela and I were asked to close the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona. While I was there, Denzil Douglas, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, came up to me and said, "We don't have a problem in the Caribbean of [AIDS] denial, we have a problem of capacity. We have neither the money nor the systems necessary to meet this challenge. Will you help us set up nationwide systems of care and treatment?" And I said, "Sure." I had no clue how I was going...
...someone else from your school makes it, it all becomes within your grasp,” Nelson says. Still, he says he is surprised at the strength of Yale’s showing this election cycle, calling it “a vast overrepresentation of one school...
...according to Professor Nelson, academic credentials do matter to the American voter...
...irony is that a lot of these guys are legacies and that if we went on SATs then they’d be somewhere else,” Nelson says...
...lest either institution take too much credit for producing great leaders, Prof. Nelson points out that family connections—more than schooling—were responsible for the success of many elite alums...