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Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: A Smile to Remember

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New York Times - 02.07.2010 Original article ›

Wang Dan, Wang, Dan

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A democracy activist in China inspired by Nelson Mandela who now teaches at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

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Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: Ray of Light

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Souleymane Guengueng, Souleymane, Guengueng

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Souleymane Guengueng of Chad, a political prisoner during the dictatorship of Hissene Habre, and the ray of light Mandela's release brought to him in prison. He now lives in New York City.

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Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: My Hero, Page by Page

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Ko Bo Kyi, Ko, Bo, Kyi

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Ko Bo Kyi spent years in prison after protests over the army annulling Burma's 1990 elections. Pages of a magazine article on Mandela's autobiography were smuggled into Burma's Insein prison where he was jailed. A song about Mandela sustained Kyi and fellow prisoners in prison. He escaped to Thailand in 1999 after a second prison term and quickly obtained a copy of Mandela's "Long Walk to Freedom."

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Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: The Radio’s Song of Liberation

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Fadjroel Rachman, Fadjroel, Rachman

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Fadjroel Rachman, a student at the Bandung Institute of Technology was kidnapped in August 1989 and spend three years in jails for protesting corruption and human rights violations of the Suharto military regime in Indonesia. He is a political economist at the Research Institute of Democracy and Welfare State in Jakarta, Indonesia. He first heard of Mandela's 1990 release from a tiny cell in a military prison in Bandung, West Java, as the news came over a radio sitting on a shelf in the canteen for prison guards in front of his cell.

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Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: Path of Most Resistance

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Nguyen Dan Que, Nguyen, Dan, Que

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Nguyen Dan Que, is a doctor in Vietnam who has been imprisoned three times. Que was doing diabetes research in London during the 1970's. Three months after Mandela's release Que called for a nonviolent movement for basic rights and free elections in Vietnam. He was arrested a month later and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor.

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Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: Freedom’s Dominoes

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Jack Mapanje, Jack, Mapanje

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Jack Mapanje is a visiting fellow at Newcastle University Center for Literary Arts in Britain and has written a memoir of his period in prison. He was in Mikuyu Prison in Malawi when the news of Mandela's release was brought to him as a rumor by a prison guard. The same guard had earlier brought the rumor in 1989 that South African President Klerk had started secret talks with Mandela. He describes the therapeutic effect of rumors in prison. At the time Martin Munthali was also a political prisoner in Malawi after being sent to prison by Malawi's president Hastings Banda, a year after Mandela was sent to prison. Mandela spent 27 years in prison before his release. After Mandela's release, political prisoners at Mikuyu were released and free elections were planned putting an end to the regime of Hastings Banda, who had supported the Apartheid government in South Africa.

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A Globe Still in Need of Steel

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Phyllis Korkki, Phyllis, Korkki

This Crisis Won’t Stop Moving

New York Times - 02.07.2010 Original article ›

Gretchen Morgenson, Gretchen, Morgenson

Is Greece’s Debt Trashing the Euro?

New York Times - 02.07.2010 Original article ›

Landon Thomas Jr., Landon, Thomas, Jr.

Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge

New York Times - 02.07.2010 Original article ›

Gretchen Morgenson, Gretchen, Morgenson, Louise Story, Louise, Story

Toyota Has Pattern of Slow Response on Safety Issues

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New York Times - 02.07.2010 Original article ›

James Kanter, James, Kanter, Micheline Maynard, Micheline, Maynard, Hiroko Tabuchi, Hiroko, Tabuchi