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Bleary-eyed as the clock ticked past midnight, the negotiators bargained over final details. At last, nine hours late, 19 men ascended the podium in the cavernous convention center and signed, one by one, a draft constitution giving equal rights to South Africans of every color. The last-minute delay was nothing to blacks who had waited generations for this moment. "We have reached the end of an era," declared a triumphant Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress. President F.W. de Klerk agreed: "South Africa will never be the same again...
When Hovanessian finally stepped up to the conference podium in the Paris suburb of Marnes-la-Coquette, he faced an animated throng of 200 fellow scientists and a large contingent of reporters. But by the time the Lebanese- born biologist had finished flashing 20 graphs and charts on the screen beside him, a buzz of doubt had filled the room, and the long-standing rivalry between American and French AIDS researchers had once again surfaced...
...early 1980s, young GOP House members adopted a new strategy for combatting the insurmountable Democratic majority. Led by Newt Gingrich, they decided to take advantage of C-Span TV cameras situated 24 hours a day in the House chamber by making alarmist, often untrue, speeches from the podium about what the Democrats were doing to the House. Most of the time, there were few other members in the chamber; sometimes, there were none because everyone else had gone home for the night. These tactics so infuriated Speaker Tip O'Neill that he directed some untoward language at Gingrich from...
When Clinton took the podium minutes later, he was understandably alarmed to see a seven-month-old speech on the TelePrompTer's display screens. Clinton told the news to Gore, who didn't believe it at first. "You're not reading it," said Clinton. "Read it." Gore did, and then said, "I believe that's the February speech." Gore summoned Stephanopoulos, who scrambled to fix the mistake, eventually downloading the correct version from Dreyer's laptop. But for seven minutes, Clinton vamped with just notes. "I just kind of thought," Clinton told an aide later, " 'Well, God, you're testing...
...wasn't quite your average fundraiser, though. This particular rec center sat in the midst of a sprawling low-income housing project. The audience--three-quarters Black, mostly residents of the project--cheered loudly, nodded and murmured as speeches unfolded. Later, many local residents stepped to the podium, pledging support and restating their confidence in the candidate...