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Harvard's female varsity athletes gathered in Agassiz Theater last night for an inspirational talk by writer Mariah Burton Nelson...
Through childhood memories and a series of slides, Nelson illustrated basic aspects of competition, namely accepting a loss, celebrating a victory and getting used to compete within a specific sports environment. Nelson also extended the analogy to real life situations...
...Nelson focused on the need for women athletes to establish their own power rather than attempt to fulfill a set feminine image. She described women's concern with weight as a "modern girdle" which represents an obstacle to women's empowerment...
According to Nelson, women athletes are too often afraid that men disapprove of female victory and let their fear keep them back from asserting themselves. For this reason, women need to be more outspoken...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: President Nelson Mandela told a divorce court today what had been rumored for years -- that wife Winnie Mandela had cheated on him during his 27-year imprisonment. On the first day of the divorce proceedings, the leader of the African National Congress told the packed courtroom that he had wished to resolve his marital problems in the privacy of their bedroom, "honorably and quietly, without washing our dirty linen in public." But Mandela said that since his release from prison, his wife had never even entered his bedroom while he was awake. Winnie Mandela has refused...