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...sides, which had never officially talked to each other. A secret committee was set up including Coetsee, Mandela and Niel Barnard, the head of South Africa's intelligence service. Mandela pressed for a meeting with South Africa's President, P.W. Botha, known as the Great Crocodile for his blustery temper. An off-the-record courtesy call was finally arranged in 1989. So anxious was Barnard, the intelligence chief, about the meeting that seconds before the two men were to shake hands, he knelt down to fix Mandela's clumsily tied shoes. (Prisoners were forbidden shoelaces, and Mandela was long...
...finally struck a deal. Gates had made little secret of his anger at the Justice Department for looking into Microsoft's empire and the sometimes ferocious tactics it has used to build it. At one point during an earlier antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, Gates lost his temper and started shouting at the commissioners. It was only after the Justice Department issued a "We'll see you in court" ultimatum-and then let the deadline slip by a day-that Gates finally agreed last summer to settle...
...decision to performs both operas in Englishis commendable, and the translated texts are clearand effective. Jefferson Packer's lively renderingof La Rondine--done, presumably, for thisperformance--is a bit prosaic at times, perhaps inan attempt to temper the sentimental excess of theoriginal...
Maggie catches a break when she meets Jorge (Vladimir Vega), a gentle Paraguayan refugee. But as they try to create their own family, Maggie's past haunts them. So does her bad temper. Brutalized as a child, she has a vicious streak and a suspicion of Jorge's goodness. Any man who doesn't strike her--and strike out at the system she believes oppresses her--well, he can't be a real man, can he? Heroically, Jorge endures Maggie's depressions, rages and physical abuse. All he can do is love...
Rather than admit that, in the heat of the moment, he lost his notorious temper, Maxwell is justifying his actions. He is even complaining about his punishment, one of the harshest the NBA has ever handed down...