Word: nelsons
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...California, and it was going fine until about six years ago. Suddenly, everywhere she turned, she saw her husband's killer. She saw him on T shirts, on posters, on book covers, on television. He'd become an international celebrity, called a hero by some, compared to Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. by others. Maureen Faulkner's crusade began then, and the next stop takes her back home...
Others, including local civil rights leaders, maintain the incident was not about race at all. Black police also threw punches. But, says Jill Nelson, editor of an anthology on police brutality, "that is an easy cop-out." Racism almost never works in simple if-then steps. If a black person is involved, race is not then necessarily moot. "Success [in a department] is designed in white male terms," says Ronald Hampton of the National Black Police Association. "So these guys internalize the racist, oppressive culture of the police department in order to succeed...
Thabo Mbeki has one of the hardest jobs in world politics: following Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. He has to make good on the promise of liberation, even as many of the country's postapartheid hopes are collapsing amid low economic growth, soaring unemployment and a crime wave that is tearing at the social order. As the leader of Africa's economic and military powerhouse, Mbeki is also expected to play regional statesman and peacemaker, and to lead an aggressive campaign against the AIDS epidemic ravaging the continent...
...increasing the risks to his countrymen. Pressure is growing for him to re-evaluate his contrarian stance on HIV and--at the very least--to allow AZT treatment for pregnant women. That demand in particular was endorsed last Friday by a man Mbeki can't easily refuse: Nelson Mandela...
...funny essays on junk cinema, Michael J. Nelson, star of dear old Mystery Science Theater 3000, pokes at dead things with a nice Midwestern disdain. Among his targets: Patch Adams (about a doctor whose mission is to "put on a clown nose and frighten children") and actor Jason Lee ("He sucks out loud. He sucks on toast. He forces me to use the word sucks"). In the land of suckitude, Mike Nelson is king...