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...turned his back on Afrikanerdom in 1960, following the killing of 69 blacks by police in the Sharpeville massacre. He helped found the multiracial Christian Institute of South Africa, which declared apartheid immoral. In 1977 the government "banned" both the institute and Naudé, condemning him to seven years of virtual house arrest. Yet Naudé, 70, shows no signs of yielding. Since he assumed his SACC post last February, he has urged the government to negotiate with the A.N.C., to permit exiled black nationalists to return, and to release Nelson Mandela, a long-imprisoned leader of the A.N.C...
Greenspan said that a feature on the thefacebook.com that allows users to export their lists of virtual “friends†had been programmed to store the information as a file on the website’s servers, making it potentially accessible to the prying eyes of strangers...
...what true?" I thought it was an odd way to start a phone conversation with a virtual stranger...
...first, in 1979, drew enormous, bloc-shaking crowds. On the next trip, after he told the restive populace to "be not afraid" and declared in the holy town of Czestochowa that "man cannot remain with no way out," the new Solidarity free-trade-union movement made him its virtual patron saint, flying the papal flag at the gate of the Gdansk shipyard...
...Sachs and others on the necessity for the developed world to assist Africa with a Marshall-type plan, I am not sure that economic aid by itself will translate substantially into prosperity. The truth is, Africa is a dysfunctional continent, scarred by the most damaging legacy of colonization: the virtual destruction of its social, political and belief systems. Self-esteem, mutual regard and tolerance have given way to self-loathing, mutual disregard and ethnic and religious intolerance. Africa needs a cultural revolution that will heal old wounds, break down artificial boundaries and re-emphasize the traditional African view...