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...imperial splendor. Mandela's boyhood was peaceful enough, spent on cattle herding and other rural pursuits, until the death of his father landed him in the care of a powerful relative, the acting regent of the Thembu people. But it was only after he left the missionary College of Fort Hare, where he had become involved in student protests against the white colonial rule of the institution, that he set out on the long walk toward personal and national liberation...
...with Perry, her son's spiritual adviser, for succor, telling him that she couldn't erase the images "of the children hurting, of the parents trying to find their babies, the fact that these mothers will never get to hold their children again." Scott Johnson, who was in Fort Worth, Texas, when he heard the news, also came to Perry's church, with his younger son Monte. On Wednesday night, recalls Perry, "they had come late. Toward the end of the evening, I asked everyone to pray, to turn their chairs around and kneel to pray for those who were...
LATE: "After a two-hour delay, Clinton stepped...onto a stage...'I didn't know his hair was that gray,' said second-grader Sam Melvin, 8. 'Or that his face was that red,' added classmate Kate Ferguson. --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel...
...Susan Wynn, an allergist who practices in Fort Worth, Texas, first noticed the problem at the beginning of February. Dr. William Berger of Mission Viejo, Calif., picked up on it two weeks later. That was just about when Dr. Donald Pulver of Rochester, N.Y., realized, as he puts it, that "everybody, including my wife, was complaining about itchy eyes, stuffy nose, dry cough--the classic signs of an allergy attack." Classic, except that the allergy season wasn't due to begin for at least a month...
DIED. JAMES MCDOUGAL, 57, eccentric Arkansas banker and former friend of Bill and Hillary's, who snitched on his business dealings with the Clintons and sparked the ongoing Whitewater investigation; of cardiac arrest; in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was in prison (see Eulogy below...