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...haggling to subordinates. And the leading understudies, government minister Roelof Meyer, 46, and A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa, 41, eventually came through with the crucial compromise: an agreement to establish a government of national unity for five years after the first free elections in April. Full-scale majority- rule democracy would arrive, with some time allowed for all South Africans to get used to it. In perhaps their finest moment since their first meeting, De Klerk and Mandela recognized the wisdom of this plan and made critical concessions. De Klerk dropped his insistence on building in some form of white...
...know for months or years -- how good these four will be as storytellers. Of course, it is possible that the year's peacemaking has merely lit a couple of candles on an altar that has been dedicated for centuries -- and is still dedicated -- to human sacrifice on an Aztec scale. Blessed are the peacemakers, and few in number. Still, in the words of Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations: ''The fact that Muslim and Jew, black and white, accept each other proves that war between civilizations is not inevitable. This sends out a global message...
Given these strengths, HoCos consistently ask what we can do on both a campus-wide and House-wide scale, only to run up against the lack of substantial funding. What could the same creative talents that plan each House’s events do if they were less financially constrained? Last weekend’s masquerading mobs at Currier’s Heaven and Hell showed that there is demand for free, campus-wide events, so much so that their attendance had to be capped midway through the event! Yet few other HoCos can satisfy their obligations to their House...
...GLOBAL FUND www.theglobalfund.org This multinational partnership was created in 2002 to fund a dramatic scale-up in the fight against three big killers: AIDS, TB and malaria...
It’s always unfortunate when private data is released and confidences are broken. We rely, however, on the common decency of those around us to control the damage. This campus saw a failure of that decency on an astounding scale. So many people are to blame: those who spread the archives around even though they were obviously intended to be private, the reporting staff of The Crimson for bringing personal gossip into a public forum with insufficient regard to the feelings of its objects, and everyone else, myself included, who pointed a finger at Isis for making...