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Mandela's treatment of white South Africans provokes one of the most acute criticisms of his government. Some have accused Mandela of bending too far to assuage white anxieties at the expense of black aspirations. The queen of these populist detractors is Mandela's estranged wife Winnie. When Mandela fired her from a Cabinet post for criticizing the government, there was fear that she might incite a breakaway movement within the A.N.C. In fact, the incident rallied party stalwarts around the President. Winnie found herself with no one willing to defend...
...year-old pyramid at Sakkara, a locale famous for its step-pyramid (an early model). Long hidden in the sand, the royal monument looks more like a pile of rock than the great pyramids on the Giza plateau, which lie north. Inscriptions found at the site dedicate it to Queen Meritites, who (for the genealogically-minded) may have been the daughter of Pharaoh Pepi I, who ruled during the 6th Dynasty...
Four Modern Painters. A symposium on artists represented in the Joseph H. Hazen Collection, on loan to the Harvard University Art Museums. Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski, associate professor, Department of Art, Queen's University will speak about Vincent Van Gogh; Yule F. Heibel, independent scholar will speak about Wassily Kandinsky; Robert J. Boardingham, assistant curator, European Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts will speak about Pablo Picasso and Hollis Clayson, professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University will speak about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Sackler Museum Auditorium, 2:15 p.m. Free...
Yesterday's women's lacrosse game against Dartmouth was worthy of a Lewis Carroll narrative. The No. 13 Crimson's 14-8 loss at Ohiri Field to No. 3 Dartmouth was as backward and out of character as any Mad Hatter's tea or croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Dartmouth 14 Harvard...
...threat, Helms has made the threat." Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked the Helms proposal as unrealistic, arguing that under the proposed law, even Britain's Queen Elizabeth would be denied a U.S. visa, since the United Kingdom has invested in a Cuban venture...