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None of this would have been possible without Nelson Mandela. He is South Africa's George Washington, the revolutionary turned President who has overseen the birth of a nation. His popularity is phenomenal. Eighty-three percent of urban blacks say he is doing well, while 55% of whites agree. In November 1993, almost four years after his release from prison and five months before South Africa's first democratic elections, Mandela's approval rating among whites stood at a mere 4%. In fact, today Mandela is more vital to white hopes than black, for among whites he is the indispensable...
Some might say that in the year since Nelson Mandela became President, only the names have changed in the new South Africa, that the blacks in their shantytowns and the whites in their high-walled suburban homes live no differently than they did before. And, of course, there would be truth to that, for the lives of most South Africans have not altered materially. But anyone who has spent more than an afternoon in the old apartheid South Africa, anyone who has visited even for a week the grim, oppressive, lopsided country run by ironfisted Afrikaners in Homburg hats, anyone...
...look at these stats and wonder where all the [minorities] are," said resident Rev. Nelson Fox. "I don't see all the people you're counting [as minorities...
...people watching rose around 10 o'clock that night, when another girl was heard calling out from the chaos. By the time they reached her, Brandy Liggons, 15, had been trapped for nearly 12 hours. "You can't imagine what it looked like where she was," says surgeon Rick Nelson, who had to climb over corpses to get to her. "She was completely covered in rubble, twisted metal framing and electrical conduit of about two inches in diameter. She seemed to be wrapped around a metal chair." It took three hours to extract Brandy, while Nelson gave her oxygen...
Although I have no expectation that anyone at The Crimson would have known these basic facts, I do expect that you, as responsible journalists, would do your homework. Steven Nelson GSAS...