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...Africa. But to ensure success, Mandela was compelled to forgive conduct toward himself and all South African blacks that his own moral code tells him is unforgivable. That he bowed to such compromise is testimony to the fact that the Nelson Mandela who walked with such dignity out of prison in February 1990 was not the same firebrand who had been placed there 27 years before. Born into the royal family of the 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...
...remember how pleased and surprised they were by each other's responsiveness, courtesy and willingness to cooperate. ''We immediately started talking freely to each other,'' says De Klerk. ''He met me on a basis of equality and discussed issues objectively,'' Mandela notes. ''I was tremendously impressed.'' Once out of prison, Mandela commended De Klerk as ''a man of integrity.'' Months later, he retracted this judgment. As the intense bargaining between them began, Mandela was first startled and then outraged to discover that De Klerk was not a meek facilitator of historical inevitability but a tough, grudging opponent. De Klerk kept...
...KLERK: In prison, Mr. Mandela, probably had a perception of leaders of the National Party that was proved wrong when he met us. My first meeting with him in 1989 was fairly relaxed. We came to grips with some fundamental things, basically the need to solve the problem of South Africa through negotiation and recognizing each other as main players who would have to take the lead. MANDELA: I found Mr. De Klerk very positive, very bright, very confident of himself, and ready to accommodate the views I expressed. The National Party had announced a ((reform)) program in which they...
...Design: Memorializing the Holocaust, sublimely 74 Environment: Better times for owls, but not for whales 75 Science: Genes mapped, embryos cloned, Hubble rescued 76 Products: 3DO leads the way to the data highway 79 Books: The real J.F.K. and a Danish thriller 83 Theater: A brassy musical about prison torture 85 Music: Three Tonys who are tigers 86 Show Business: Howard and Rush heat up the airwaves 87 Sport: Memorable clashes, on the field and off 88 People: Michael Jackson's age of innocence is over...
Sometimes healthy doses of gratuitousness and absurdity can produce a show that is gratuitous and absurd. And sometimes they can produce a show that is simply addictive and highly viewable, somehow rising above its own ridiculousness. “Prison Break” fits the latter bill. In the past two episodes alone, Fox River Penitentiary inmates and Fox Network viewers have seen a tabby cat executed, a molested teenager hang himself, Secret Service operatives gun down a pair of suburban step-parents, a guard hump a secretary in the break room (to table-shaking effect), and a mobster...