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Before a crowd of 25,000 that stretched from the steps of Memorial Church to the stone columns of Widener Library, Nelson R. Mandela called for continued efforts to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor in countries around the world...
Security for Friday's special convocation involving Nelson R. Mandela seemed, according to many observers, to be rather light. But Mandela's bodyguards may merely have been observing that rule: It sometimes pays to be discreet and to be quick...
...welcomed Nelson Mandela with open arms and roaring cheers. We sang for him, we laughed for him and we (almost) cried...
...attended the Convocation for Nelson Mandela's honorary degree Friday, and I was struck by Harvard's apparent loss of institutional memory regarding the South African struggle. I am writing to jog that memory...
There is little doubt that Nelson Mandela is a great man, worthy of our utmost praise and hence, an honorary degree from Harvard. Yet why have all the special degree recipients been male politicians? Surely there have been scientists, entertainers, humanitarians or teachers (and maybe even female ones) who have contributed as much or more to humanity...