Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First-year roommates, however, can trace this desire back to his early days on the both the Undergraduate and Roomie Councils. Subramanian, says Eugene D. Stern '91-'92, is obsessed with his council jobs...
...very, very involved in his political doings," says Stern. "He takes it all very seriously. He worries a lot about it. He's very committed, very serious, very earnest...
...always thinking up things," Stern continues. "He's often thought up grandiose schemes. Sometimes he gets ideas and he gets very very excited about them. He would always be thinking about `well, the U.C. should do this' and `the U.C. should do that.' When I was living with him I knew more about the U.C. than probably most U.C. members...
Behind the stern talk, antiapartheid leaders conceded they were searching for compromises that could get them to the conference table. De Klerk has kept the final ace, the release of Mandela, in his hand, and when he plays it, the antiapartheid movement will feel heavy pressure to sit down and talk. The question then will be whether any solution acceptable to both the black majority and the white minority is negotiable...
...great-grandfather were National Party politicians, and his uncle J.G. Strydom was a Prime Minister. He was twelve years old in 1948, when his father became a Member of Parliament and the National Party rose to power on the platform of Grand Apartheid. While he modeled himself on his stern and unyielding father, his brother Willem, 61, who became a journalist and a vocal critic of apartheid, took after their more moderate mother. F.W., says his brother, "was always part of the Establishment, always a conformist...