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...they did when Sally Ride shook things up on the space shuttle. With her bad '80s flyaway and skin-tight jumpsuit, Ride seemed as unlikely a candidate for equal rights crusader as Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). But just as Thurmond found the wherewithal this year to pat Nelson Mandela's back under a statue of Abraham Lincoln after calling the esteemed South African leader a terrorist thug a few years back, Ride surprised observers, especially those of us in elementary school at the time...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Of Sally Ride and Final Club | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...they did when Sally Ride shook things up on the space shuttle. With her bad '80s flyaway and skintight jumpsuit, Ride seemed as unlikely a candidate for equal rights crusader as Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). But just as Thurmond found the wherewithal this year to pat Nelson Mandela's back under a statue of Abraham Lincoln after calling the esteemed South African leader a terrorist thug a few years back, Ride surprised observers, especially those of us in elementary school at the time...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Of Sally Ride and Final Clubs | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...Nelson Mandela?s miracle is complete. South Africans voted Wednesday without fuss or violence in their second free election, confirming their retiring president?s profound achievement of entrenching democracy in a country once wracked by brutal racism and civil war. At the same time, the fact that Mandela?s African National Congress (ANC) is expected to win a landslide victory is a sign of remarkable voter patience with a party that has not yet managed to deliver on its promise to provide jobs and homes for the impoverished majority. Rather than trying to unseat the ANC, opposition parties have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandela Passes Baton to a New Generation | 6/2/1999 | See Source »

...wouldn't recommend it for anyone who factors longevity into his lifetime plan." He probably thought he meant that. But even earlier, as a busy lawyer who had never written before, he used the time while waiting for his court cases to be called to write the 1987 Judd Nelson movie, From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's David Kelley's World: You're Just Watching It | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...following students, all Class of 1999, were named prize winners: Miriam B. Goldstein, Katherine R. Ives, Catherine A. Kreindler, Eric M. Nelson and Lamelle D. Rawlins, all of Adams House; Stephanie V.A. Gibbs, David A. Lyczkowski, Margaret E. Schotte, Samuel B. Shaw, Lee Shearer, Paul D. Todgham and Katherine R. Unterman, all of Cabot House; and Olivia S. Choe, David W. Lerch and Jay T. Perron, all of Currier House...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Awards Hoopes Prizes; Lowell Takes 12 | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

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