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Jannie Momberg is also optimistic about black attitudes at home. "Blacks do not usually go around shouting 'Kill the whites,' " he says. "I've seen more black-white race hatred in the streets of New York than I have in South Africa. There is an enormous reservoir of goodwill to be found here. This is what will save this country...
...that reservoir? Even if a majority of South African whites were prepared to accept Momberg's ideas about power sharing, which they are not at present, it is by no means clear whether it would be acceptable to a majority of blacks. With the current wave of police actions and arrests, a familiar pattern is beginning to emerge. The United Democratic Front, founded in 1983 to organize broad-based multiracial opposition to the government, has revealed some sympathy for the outlawed and exiled African National Congress. One by one, U.D.F. leaders have been put under surveillance or detained, actions that...
...former Secretary of the Treasury and current president of the most prestigious university in the world, Summers is capable of doing more than creating two task forces to advance women at Harvard. Given the reservoir of talent in the Harvard community, the challenge of inclusion is minimal. It would be a much stronger statement to the world about the imperatives of higher education and business if he advocated for a female or a minority for the soon-to-be vacated position of president of the Harvard Management Company (HMC)—the group that controls the University?...
...both leaders, the crisis presents an early measure of whether their mutual respect and shared reputation for pragmatism can bring an end to the ruinous conflict between their peoples. There appears to be a reservoir of goodwill between the men that should eventually bring them together to discuss ways to overcome the violence. Sharon has long treated Abbas, the first P.L.O. member he ever agreed to meet, with a level of respect he never showed Arafat. At peace talks in Wye River, Md., in 1998, Sharon refused to shake Arafat's hand and pointedly ignored him--but he chatted amicably...
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