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...renewed economic growth. De Klerk also had a natural interest in his own political future. In 1985 he had asked two consultants what he should do to succeed Botha; they both told him to soften his image on the necessity of preserving apartheid. This, cautiously, he began to do. Upon taking office, De Klerk announced, ''Our goal is a totally changed South Africa.'' In December 1989 he convened a historic bosberaad, or bush council, at which he won his Cabinet's authorization to lift the government's ban on the A.N.C. and to release Mandela in February of the following...
...high wind. The regions seem just as violent now as they did before Arafat and Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, and before Mandela and De Klerk locked into their collaboration toward a new South African constitution. And yet. . . Peacemaking, like warmaking or courtship, depends upon exquisitely balanced, mysterious and usually unpredictable combinations of context, timing, luck, leadership, mood, personal needs, outside help and spending
...Clarence Jones, 1904-1987,” reads a gravestone-like inscription superimposed upon a rugged mountain landscape in one of Ed Ruscha’s recent paintings, “Really knew how to sharpen knives.” The dry wit, irony, and originality that pervade such a painting should also be on display in Ruscha’s upcoming Harvard lecture, which he will deliver at the Carpenter Center next Thursday...
This weekend, South Asian cultures—both old and new—will converge upon the Harvard stage in the production, “Kalpanam: Classical Imaginations.” The program’s dance performance pieces not only typify traditional Indian dance styles—dancers will perform lively Kuchuppudi folk dances and classic Bharathnatyam dance narratives about Hindu gods—but are also accented with bits of modern flair...
...Labor Relations Board (NLRB).The university had originally recognized the union in 2002 after the NLRB ruled in 2000 that graduate students are workers and have the right to unionize. 2004, the NLRB reversed course and ruled against unionization efforts at Brown University, which would “intrude upon the academic relationship between the university and students.”“However, there’s nothing in the 2004 decision that prevents NYU from negotiating with us,” Valentine said.Graduate students are concerned that the university could suddenly change the levels of benefits...