Word: nelsons
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...State of Affairs Your notebook item about president Bush's visit to Africa and his failure to meet with former South African President Nelson Mandela [July 7] noted that Mandela called the U.S. "a threat to world peace." That statement has depressed me more than all the other horrible things that have recently occurred. Mandela feels that he represents justice and truth and thus can say and perhaps do anything he wants. But the threat to world peace lies in the self-righteous mentality of certain people who try to sum up all of the problems in the world...
...most foreign leaders traveling to South Africa, dropping in on Nelson Mandela is the equivalent of meeting the Queen in London--a task both customary and pleasant. But for President Bush's visit to the country on July 8, a session with the world's most sanctified icon of social justice "is not on the schedule," a senior White House official tells TIME. This is probably no oversight. The former South African President is, after all, among the most persistent and vitriolic critics of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy...
...film has an interestingly hybrid pedigree. Its producer was John Heyman, who helped arrange financing for Chinatown and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Heyman took the project to Bill Bright, founder of the Evangelical ministry Campus Crusade, who obtained a $3.5 million loan guarantee from Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt. (The film eventually cost $6 million.) Campus Crusade says it consulted with hundreds of scholars and Christian leaders before the movie was made and cast it with Yemenite Jews--except for Jesus, who is played by British actor Brian Deacon...
...WILLIE NELSON has just cut two albums--Live and Kickin' and Run That by Me One More Time--with fellow legend Ray Price...
...WITH WILLIE NELSON...