Word: nelsons
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...Nelson T. Greaves ’10, staff writer and correspondent, also feels that On Harvard Time’s willingness to take on new members without barriers is an asset. “Because there’s no comp, the people who are there are there because they want to be there,” he says. “And I think that creates a lot of positive energy...
...Garrett G.D. Nelson ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Social Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator in Cabot House...
...even if Zuma (pictured above) succeeds in providing stability while fulfilling promises to his leftist supporters, the status of the African National Congress (ANC) party, once the continent's most respected organ of national liberation, has been irreversibly diminished by the infighting of the past few years. Under Nelson Mandela, the ANC peerlessly wielded its moral authority. But that trait also encouraged leaders to think they were above reproach, an attitude that found its fullest expression in Mbeki, who often acted as if he had no reason to explain himself and simply asked people to take his decisions on trust...
...Alaska's campaign representative for Nelson Rockefeller's 1964 failed bid for the Republican nomination for President. That year, he experienced the biggest earthquake in Alaskan history and won his first elected office, as a member of the Alaska house of representatives...
...following year was imprisoned for his role in those events. He spent ten years behind bars on Robben Island, the infamous South African prison which held so many anti-Apartheid leaders it became known as the "university of the struggle", where he joined fellow inmate Nelson Mandela in the ANC. Upon release, he became an organizer for the National Union of Mineworkers, becoming its Secretary General in 1987. A decade later, was voted into the same position in the ANC, and became its deputy president...