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Harvard officials didn't make an exception for South African leader Nelson R. Mandela and they didn't make an exception for Louise Bourgeois either...
Edney delivered the final address, recounting milestones of the past year, from the special convocation for South African leader Nelson R. Mandela to Radcliffe's decision to merge with the University...
Harvard officials didn't make an exception for South African Leader Nelson R. Mandela and they didn't make an exception for Louise Bourgeois either...
Standard Harvard New Year's resolution: "I resolve to make use of everything available here. "You can't. It's not humanly possible. In my first year here I saw, met or was involved in an educational experience with Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Alice Walker, Will Smith, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Goodman '63, Patricia O'Brien, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia Powell, Elizabeth McCracken, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. '60, Alphonse Flethcer Jr. University Professor Cornel West '74, Professor...
...Nelson Mandela?s miracle will look easy compared with the feat being attempted by his successor. South Africa?s elder statesman bowed out of the presidency Wednesday as his hand-picked heir, Thabo Mbeki, was inaugurated as head of a state that has abolished apartheid but not yet overcome its legacy. Offering a sober assessment of the dramatic social inequalities that persist in post-apartheid South Africa, Mbeki dedicated his government to overcoming unemployment, hunger, poverty and crime. "The full meaning of liberation will not be realized until our people are freed from the dehumanizing legacy of deprivation we inherited...