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...days before receiving his Nobel Peace Prize, African National Congress (A.N.C.) President Nelson Mandela entertains visitors and well-wishers at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway. Tall, exquisitely tailored, he dispenses soft handshakes and his world-famous smile. The 27 years he spent in South African prisons seem somehow to have left him younger than his 75 years; he looks well + rested and benign. The mention of a newborn baby boy makes him beam. Because of his confinement, he did not get to see his own two youngest daughters grow up, and since his release he has kindled a love...
...have foreseen only a few years earlier. ''Our goal is a new South Africa,'' De Klerk told the audience at the Nobel awards ceremony. From the same platform, Mandela proclaimed, ''We can today even set the dates when all humanity will join together to celebrate one of the outstanding victories of our century.'' That victory was not easily won, and the mutual enmity between Mandela and De Klerk may be due in part to battle fatigue. There is another reason. Both men knew that their collaboration would, if successful, lead to political rivalry between them. De Klerk the incumbent...
...Thembu, a clan of the Xhosa tribe based in the Transkei, Mandela was trained as a boy to rule someday as a chief. Instead he became a lawyer and an A.N.C. militant. It was just a few months after then A.N.C. leader Chief Albert Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize that Mandela urged the party leadership to take up arms. Committed to nonviolence, Luthuli was deeply ambivalent about the proposition. . Mandela remembers Luthuli finally telling him, ''We are going to keep to nonviolence, but we give you permission to go and start the organization to embark on armed...
...Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei stressed the need for global cooperation in addressing arms control and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in a speech yesterday at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. ElBaradei said that the current non-proliferation program is rife with problems that render efforts to stifle nuclear development very difficult. “If we look at the system now, I think it is a dysfunctional system,” ElBaradei said. He said a multi-national effort is central to his vision of successful implementation of the United Nations’ non-proliferation treaty...
...gregarious, a nice guy,” and a winter 2003 article on Van Parijs in an MIT development office publication described him as one of the field’s “top young researchers.” At Caltech, Van Parijs worked in the lab of Nobel laureate and Caltech President David Baltimore, Perry said. Abbas said he can’t understand why Van Parijs chose to fabricate data. “In this particular case, I have absolutely no idea, none at all,” Abbas said. Abbas said that the problematic aspects...