Word: royalities
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...which were so costly to many South Africans, were also supported by a number of students, faculty and employees at Harvard, who engaged in our own struggle with the institution's desire not to be involved. It is too easy now for officials to laud President Mandela as a "royal" leader whose dedicated struggles led to his peoples freedom. We in the U.S. had a real role in supporting the South African racist regime, and Harvard should own up to that. SUSAN C. EATON '79- '80 Sept...
What makes President Mandela even more extraordinary is his choice to trade a life of relative privilege for one of unceasing struggle. Of royal lineage, President Mandela was groomed from birth to take a high office in regional government. He left home, however, to become a lawyer, fighting abject poverty while earning his degree. Eventually he launched a promising legal career that could have spared him some of the trials he saw his fellow South Africans suffer...
...other members of Mandela's village where his father was the chief, approved by the British government, treated him with respect, bowing to him in the streets and addressing him in accordance with his royal status...
...Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge,Harshbarger was equally enthusiastic about theupcoming race and the prospects of him becomingthe next Bay State governor...
Members of Charles' press office at St. James's Palace insist that much of this modernization began before Diana's death. Such popular decisions as trimming the Civil List (funds allotted by Parliament for royal family expenses) and having the Queen and Prince Charles pay taxes were initiated in 1992. But there is no question that in many ways Diana's absence has made life much easier for the royals. Charles can no longer be compared unfavorably to her and, says Seward, "they get their picture in the paper, and whatever Charles does causes interest...