Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples
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Nathan Perl-RosenthalNathan Perl-Rosenthal is majoring in History at Harvard College. His work has appeared in the Israeli newpaper Maariv and the journal Trends in Microbiology. Recent articlesOnly connect : lessons from Harvard At one of the United States’ leading universities, 9/11 and the subsequent drive to war impacted on a student community with experience of mobilisation against wage poverty. How did it react to these events in a national atmosphere of conformist patriotism? The complex political and intellectual pattern of an academic environment in time of crisis is examined here from the inside. |
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