Word: nelsons
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...activists used text messages, Facebook groups and YouTube broadcasts to draw crowds. Despite some clashes with police, the marches were significantly more peaceful than the militant student mobilizations of Latin America's past. "We believe in a civic, peaceful fight," Sánchez says, citing the examples of Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...sport is the link it provides to previous generations. But because the Masters is the only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal: at Augusta, golfers walk over the Hogan, Sarazen and Nelson bridges, and the tournament is opened each year by "honorary starters" - past champions too infirm to play 18 holes but fit enough to drive off the ceremonial first tee shot...
Kyles, 73, still occupies the Memphis pulpit he stepped into nearly 50 years ago. He recalls showing the Lorraine Motel to Nelson Mandela, who wept as he said, "This is where Martin died...
...Residential Life (ORL)—a University Hall group in charge of housing decisions—in the summer of 2007, and their findings are largely seen as the basis for many of the changes enacted by the Houses this year.Associate Dean for Residential Life, Suzy M. Nelson declined to comment for this story yesterday.The announcement comes just two days before Housing Day, when current freshmen will be placed into one of 12 upperclassmen Houses.Just two weeks ago, Dunster announced that the House will receive fewer freshmen in the housing lottery, increasing the number of singles and easing...
...Court's verdict, which could be issued in June, will reshape the legal landscape for this hot-button issue. "An entire provision in the Bill of Rights is really at stake in this case," says Nelson Lund, a professor of constitutional law at George Mason University School of Law, referring to the first 10 amendments to the constitution. If the Court determines that the right to bear arms is conferred only upon state militias and not individuals, Lund says, "The Second Amendment would become, essentially, a dead...