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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Opens Friday, Nov 29, 2013 Synopsis: Nelson Mandela's life story is told with this Justin Chadwick-directed drama starring Idris Alba as the once-imprisoned South African leader. William Nicholson provides the script. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Idris Elba Movie Details Buy Tickets Movie Review

Mandela speaks to NAACP

...Former South African President Nelson Mandela stressed Monday night that Americans are...quandary. "It concerns the entire world," Mandela told a packed ballroom in a 30-minute...affairs," he said. But in his speech Mandela did address qualities of leadership...

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News
Political profiling topic of Oct. 22 program at CLC

...Handbook of Personology and Psychopathology."He studied at the University of Wyoming, University of Maine and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa, where he earned his doctorate in psychology.Immelman and his students in the Unit...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-10-11/political-profiling-topic-oct-22-pro
News | Political
Blagojevich all shook up

...set from the "Today" show to "The View." There were the comparisons of himself to Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Nelson Mandela, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. There was the impeachment, the trial and retrial, and, of course, there...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2011-06-28/blagojevich-all-shook
Columnists
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2011

...May 29. Lung cancer. JUNE: Albertina Sisulu, 92. A veteran of the anti-apartheid movement who was married to Nelson Mandela's mentor. June 2. Sammy Ofer, 89. A billionaire Israeli shipping magnate and philanthropist at the center of a scandal...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-12-16/final-goodbye-roll-call-some-who-die
News
Clinton turns focus from economics to peace

...former South African President Nelson Mandela and other mediators have tried for weeks...in Burundi's seven-year civil war. Mandela had hoped Clinton could join 12 African...cast it instead as a show of support for Mandela. "We see the Burundi peace process as...

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News
Foreign briefs

...tensions following 21 months of violent conflict. Madikizela-Mandela charged PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former president Nelson Mandela, pleaded innocent Tuesday to 85 counts of fraud and theft...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/070902/wne_0709020003.shtml
News
Cheney says he would vote differently on key issues

...nonbinding House resolution on Nelson Mandela. It called on South Africa's apartheid...African National Congress -- the party that Mandela led -- and negotiate with the country's...This Week," Cheney said he supported Mandela's release at the time, but opposed...

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Politics
Nobel Peace Prize winner is a fighter for the forests

...the peacemakers we can get. Many past recipients of the prestigious award are familiar: Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa, the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King. But before the announcement that she had won the prize...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/102304/out_1023040008.shtml
Outdoors
The holiday letters people want to read

...place would still remind me of the black hole of Calcutta. I reached a spiritual crisis and I turned to my good friend Nelson Mandela. He made it. I know I can, too -- and, who knows, maybe I'll get to be president when I get out, too! I needed a...

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