Word: robben
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ought to be doing it much. the same way, because if you don't if you leaveit on a solely bargaining basis with a givenindividual...[then the price of [an individual's]doing better is that another individual who alsohas need may not get any" because of limitedfunds, Robben Fleming, president emeritus of theUniversity of Michigan said...
...days of solitude may have helped solidify the marriage and increase Nelson's dependence on his wife. "Had it not been for your visits, wonderful letters and your love, I would have fallen apart many years ago," Nelson wrote Winnie from his Robben Island prison cell in 1979. His sense of family and corresponding feelings of guilt at having left her and their two daughters behind also helped cement the relationship. "I have often wondered whether any kind of commitment can ever be sufficient excuse for abandoning a young and inexperienced woman in a pitiless desert," he wrote in another...
Mandela's busy life at Victor Verster contrasts sharply with the years of hard labor he endured on Robben Island, a penal colony across from Cape Town Harbor where he was incarcerated for nearly two decades. For the first ten years he swung a pickax in a limestone quarry, breaking boulders into gravel. But the harsh punishment only strengthened his resolve, and he directed his anger into a crusade for better prison conditions. "To us," says Steve Tshwete, an A.N.C. guerrilla leader imprisoned for 15 years, "he represented the correctness of our cause and the inevitability of our victory...