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...Melinda Nelson of Waterville, Maine.: 6-ft., 2-in. "She's our first true center," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith says of Nelson...
...greatest and most meaningful moments in my life." So said a deeply moved Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., after an emotional 70-minute meeting last week with Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned South African black activist. Winnie Mandela also admitted to being moved by the American's visit to her red brick home in Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King...
Then in 1902 the fledgling programs got their own building, Nelson Robinson Junior Hall; the first American courses in city planning, an offshoot of landscape architecture, appeared just seven years later. With the introduction of this last great topic in design, the incipient school was complete--although city planning would not become a graduate school of its own until...
...three Hunt brothers who are the principal heirs of Papa H.L. -- Nelson Bunker, now 60, William Herbert, 57, and Lamar, 54 -- estimated their combined net worth to be between $5 billion and $6 billion. Last August they admitted that their fortune had fallen to about $2 billion. Since then, oil prices have plunged more than 50%, and it is now difficult to say what all those idle Hunt rigs and energy reserves are worth. The brothers still have many millions stashed in personal holdings -- from bank accounts to racehorses and rare coins -- but they may no longer be able...
Tutu plays a complex role in the South African freedom struggle. He does not have a huge political following, nothing comparable to that of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader, or Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the 6 million-member Zulu tribe. Tutu calls himself an "interim leader," saying that he would be less important if Mandela and others were released from prison. The archbishop is most popular among the small group of educated, middle-class blacks, but he has proved to be effective in calming angry crowds in the black townships...