---

Poland and China and the lesson of two anniversaries ...Out of years of 'failure' can come success (reg. req.)

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Mandela: Humanitarian Hero
Nelson Mandela has been one of the few contemporary heroes whose reputation and idolized status has always remained intact.
In a recent advertising research poll, Nelson Mandela was ranked the most visible and recognizable brand in the world, followed by Coca Cola which once occupied first place. The famous prisoner who later became the first president in a democratic South Africa is a brand associated with humanitarian efforts such as championing children's education, building schools in rural communities and more recently has become involved with the safe-sex HIV/AIDS campaign in South Africa.
· Global symbol of reconciliatory politics and peaceful negotiation [ via Toward a Universal Declaration of Human Wrongs ]
· · See Also The reason candidates migrate to the center is captured in the expression, where else can they go?
· · · See Also Bremer bans cleric from Iraq elections [ First spotted @ John Quiggin ] [ via Juan Cole: Bremer's action in excluding the Sadrists from parliament is one final piece of stupidity to cap all the other moronic things he has done in Iraq ]
· · · · See Also No moral choice was in fact possible? changing the course of history: They have denied the validity of the Nuremberg Tribunal [ via Barista ]
· · · · · See Also Former DCI Robert Gates on racing to ruin the CIA & ASIO
· · · · · · See Also Those who hate 'liberals' really hate a free America