Word: mandelaã
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South Africa has been battling massive unemployment, crime and poverty in the 10 years since the historic 1994 elections, which ended apartheid and transferred power to Nelson Mandela??s African Nationalist Congress...
...knew Christina Aguilera’s life,” said Chacón to laughter, “just as he knew Nelson Mandela??s life, Mikhail Gorbachev’s life, Bill Clinton’s life. He grew up knowing it all, which he was sure to tell...
...citizen; the other two are American permanent residents. Wang, who has lived in New York since 1982 and whose four children are American citizens, was abducted from a Vietnamese hotel by PRC agents in June 2002. Often referred to as “China’s Nelson Mandela??—among other achievements, Wang founded the China Democracy Party in 1998—he has been sentenced to life in prison...
...that end, if the Bush administration is serious about affecting real reforms on the island, it should highlight the imprisonment of noted Cuban dissidents the way Western activists did Nelson Mandela??s Apartheid-era jailing in South Africa. One name to start with—a name that a majority of Americans, and many Cubans, for that matter, are probably unaware of—is Francisco Chaviano Gonzalez. He has endured almost nine years of torture in the Combinado del Este prison for publicly attacking Castro on Cuban human rights violations. But Chaviano is only one of some...
...marshal, Hunt presided over every commencement since 1982, and special events including Nelson Mandela??s visit in 1998 and the installation of the last two University presidents...