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...days before receiving his Nobel Peace Prize, African National Congress (A.N.C.) President Nelson Mandela entertains visitors and well-wishers at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway. Tall, exquisitely tailored, he dispenses soft handshakes and his world-famous smile. The 27 years he spent in South African prisons seem somehow to have left him younger than his 75 years; he looks well + rested and benign. The mention of a newborn baby boy makes him beam. Because of his confinement, he did not get to see his own two youngest daughters grow up, and since his release he has kindled a love...
...negotiations his vision of a nonracial, majority-ruled South Africa. But to ensure success, Mandela was compelled to forgive conduct toward himself and all South African blacks that his own moral code tells him is unforgivable. That he bowed to such compromise is testimony to the fact that the Nelson Mandela who walked with such dignity out of prison in February 1990 was not the same firebrand who had been placed there 27 years before. Born into the royal family of the Thembu, a clan of the Xhosa tribe based in the Transkei, Mandela was trained...
...utility administration at Harvard. In addition to Harvard, the award was given to 28 other organizations by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions. But the chair of the Massachusetts chapter of the Sierra Club, an environmental group, Mary Ann Nelson, said Harvard students could contribute more to the environment. “I would hope that all the students and all the other members of the Harvard community will look at their own energy consumption. Harvard students are among wealthiest in country,” Nelson said...
...says, he can't take the abuse anymore. "It's like being a black man and being called a n_____," he says, kind of loudly. "If someone calls you a n_____ all day long, you start thinking of yourself as a n_____. And the only way to be Nelson Mandela is to be better than your opposition." I am not sure if I'm the opposition or not, but looking around at the crowded bar, I decide not to push...
...which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks at Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance...