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...Cyril Ramaphosa, the secretary-general of the A.N.C., was driving to a meeting in one of the impoverished townships near Johannesburg region. The road was so pockmarked it was hardly passable. "Even before building 10,000 houses," he says, "people must begin to see that something is happening to repair that road. Unless they see some demonstration of change in their lives, we are going to lose those people...
...PAST 12 YEARS, ON THE SIDEWALK next to my company's Tokyo headquarters, an elderly gentleman, Harukichi Watanabe, ran a small shoe-repair stand. Secretaries as well as corporate executives would leave their shoes each day for repair. After the poison-gas attack, I noticed on my arrival at the building that his stand was closed and flowers and gifts had been left there. I was told he had been killed in the subway disaster. To my surprise, when I picked up my copy of Time, on your index page I saw a picture of Watanabe lying on the subway...
Chrysler has set aside $115 million to repair door latches on its minivans, although it insists the latches are safe. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently found that 28 people died in accidents when the latches failed...
...took six hours of surgery before doctors could pronounce Kunimatsu in stable condition. They say the police chief will survive the shooting, although his recovery will take weeks. What may prove far more difficult to repair is Japan's proud sense of itself as a nation immune to the sort of violence and fear that the Japanese associate with America, not their own homeland...
...provide hard and fast rules as to the magnitude of punishments. Every case has its own complications and mitigating circumstances. But it seems in this case that the special conditions should have made the punishment more severe. Burnham suffered more than cuts and bruises; he needed surgery to repair a serious fracture to his eye and says he still suffers from double vision. And he was a prospective student, a guest of the College. This situation was no longer a purely internal affair--it tarnishes Harvard's image before the eyes of the rest of the world. The Ad Board...