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Nelson Mandela’s Legacy of Civility

ByInstitute Staff December 9, 2013August 1, 2023

All too often we underestimate the power and virtue of civility. You just want us all to be nice, folks say – as if there is anything wrong with that. But civility is about so much more than manners or mood. It is about so much more than politeness or political correctness. Civility is about…

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On the Passing of Nelson Mandela

ByAdam Zolkover December 5, 2013August 1, 2023

BBC News is reporting this evening that Nelson Mandela has died. Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa’s transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27 years in prison. He had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital. In a statement on South African national TV, Mr…

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