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...reaffirm our basic faith in humanity: former South African President Mandela. After suffering more than 25 years in prison, Mandela could easily have answered the brutality of apartheid with violence and hate. Instead, he responded with an unwavering vision of peace and reconciliation. By transcending the horrors of his time, he not only brought freedom to South Africa, he also reflected the very best of the human spirit. I've had an opportunity during my work to see the results of hate, hopelessness and despair. Through his unique, moral leadership, Mandela has succeeded in reminding America--and the world--that...
DIED. NICCOLO TUCCI, 91, writer of witty and sardonic novels (Before My Time, Unfinished Funeral) and short stories, many with an autobiographical cast and a household of colorful characters; in New York City. Sample advice to novices: "First learn to write as if you were already dead, and then you will discover that you can write as if you were still alive...
Remarkably, though, those doubts haven't broken him. In a four-hour interview with TIME, DeAngelis said he had shaken off much of the guilt he felt that awful morning. Before he was principal, DeAngelis spent 14 years coaching football and baseball, and these days he seems like a coach again, ready for battle. "People are telling me I should have known. I'm telling you, it's inaccurate," he says. "This harassment by athletes on Eric and Dylan that has been printed time and time again--I never received a call indicating that these people were harassing them...
...coaches. They had been to each other's wedding, had kids around the same age. On April 19 they sat together at a baseball game, and their how-are-you chat turned more contemplative: the long hours they spent, the many challenges of working with teenagers--"Is all the time worth it?" they wondered. They both said yes then. And DeAngelis says...
...Damascus palace last week, Madeleine Albright stole a quick glance at the door to a nearby bathroom. The only excitement during her previous meeting with the Syrian President had been getting locked in that bathroom until a security agent pried open the door. She'd avoid the room this time, but Albright expected the same demands from Assad that had so far blocked talks with Israel on returning the Golan Heights to Syria. Twenty minutes into the meeting, however, the Secretary of State and her Middle East aide, Dennis Ross, looked at each other with "something's-changed-here" expressions...