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...He mentions the tape recordings of Nelson Mandela’s trial in Pretoria in 1964, in which the ANC leader gave a bravura three-hour speech in his own defence — how the transcripts fail to convey the measured...
...When you pass Trafalgar, you’ll see it exactly as Nelson did. Technology means you can navigate the Seven Seas armed with an iPad....
...After more than a decade on the rocky island off Cape Town, Nelson Mandela was working with “Mac” Maharaj on his clandestine autobiography....
...You have inferior forces, you have inferior weaponry, but how are you going to defeat that chap? So I say, well, it’s a, b, c, whenever he forces . . ....
...Each new pinnacle added to the old ones – Nelson’s Column, Big Ben – is the triumph of aspiration over murk and mire....
...So Nelson Mandela invited him over for tea. When Viljoen and three other retired generals arrived at Mandela’s house in Johannesburg, they expected a maid to open the door....
...He has represented three Nobel Prize winners in court – Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Luthuli....
...“Whatever I went through,” he replied, “it has to be a hundred times worse, poor chap.”...
...The chap on £50,000 a year with three kids will now be £200 a month worse off. That is the price of a family holiday....
...In our little town, a few miles from Austin, the Tractor Store still sells working chaps, hats, saddles, boots and lariats....
...More than 20 years after Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, the national rugby team still consists mainly of white players....
...His namesake, the admiral, was the quiet one who saw Trafalgar through after Nelson copped it....
...Kate Nelson is sweet and graceful as Susie and Paul Grunert puts in a pleasing performance as a wily old Jewish lawyer (“Five minutes with me and they’re a woman with a past”)....
...Nelson Mandela’s release was one. Eritrea’s 1993 referendum on independence another....
...He may be an appalling chap, but the congestion charge was a good idea. And he did help win the Olympics for London....
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