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Imelda Marcos wants her sunglasses back!
The word "selfie" officially entered the English language this year, but in etiquette terms taking a photo of yourself is still a social minefield. Many may think doing so at a memorial service is a faux pas, but not for President Obama it seems. Nor UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Denmark's premier Helle Thorning-Schmidt …
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It will take 50-100 years for the fog of media crap to dissipate around Mandela; he wasn't a saint, but he was hardly the most effective communist/terrorist either. As a communist, he spent their money and used their structure, but he tried to embrace the free market on getting to power, (or at least keep his deputies on the straight and narrow). As a terrorist, there was a serious attempt to avoid civillian casualities and surprisingly little humanitarian impact given the resources they were supposed to be able to draw on. (The Spectator, of all things, has an interesting article on this subject).
South Africa could have been a complete blood bath, with a wholly military violent transfer of power. From my viewpoint, he appears to have been instrumental in achieving a peaceful transition to the current bunch of self-centred, self-serving politicians. Whether he will still have a legacy in 100 years remains to be seen, but I see the hand of a pragmatist who had a clear vision of what he wanted to achieve and an ability to use the meager tools at his disposal.