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...Klerk, who shared his 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, is credited with facilitating South Africa's peaceful transition from a racially and ethnically segregated society to one which guarantees equal rights to its members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeKlerk Denies Involvement in South African Crimes | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

...widely used high school biology texts last year and could not recommend a single one as satisfactory. "Although the textbooks are filled with pages of vocabulary and unnecessary detail, they provide only fragmentary treatment of some fundamentally important concepts" such as natural selection and cell construction, said Dr. George Nelson, the former astronaut who heads Project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amending the Texts | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

Junior forward Andrea Keller and senior defenseman Kelly Nelson, with 14 and 15 points respectively, also pose a threat on the offensive...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 5 W. Hockey Faces No. 8 UNH and Maine | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

...into the theological issue of whether grace can be achieved through faith alone, but let's say, for the sake of argument, that you can achieve grace through the good work you do here on earth. Does it really matter, then, if Nelson Mandela cheats on his taxes? (He doesn't, by the way.) Does it matter that Mother Teresa was nasty to her kid brother? (I'm making that one up, too.) The idea here is that if you perform great and lasting public service, perhaps it doesn't really matter what the heck you're like in private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So That's Why Jesse Warned About Casting the First Stone... | 1/19/2001 | See Source »

...Tropicalia. There is also MPB, ax?, pagode and a host of other Brazilian musical styles. Artists from around the world, from Stan Getz to Sting to Beck have taken the music that Brazil borrowed and borrowed it right back. "Pop music is best product we make in Brazil," says Nelson Mota, a leading Brazilian music critic and the author of "Noites Tropicais," a book about the history of Brazilian music. "It's one of the few things in which we're first world. It expresses our diversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

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