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• Why Nelson Mandela Was So Beloved
• Remembering Nelson Mandela: A tribute in photos and prose
• Montana teachers take pension argument to court

Why Nelson Mandela Was So Beloved Posted: 05 Dec 2013 02:48 PM PST Nelson Mandela will be remembered as a beloved leader, a moral authority and an extraordinary human being. Imprisoned for 27 years for opposing the racist institution of apartheid, Mandela later became the first black president of South Africa, where he brought about a peaceful transition from the white-dominated government to a multiracial democracy. "He stood for something very simple, which was for equality and fairness," said David James Smith, author of the biography "Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years" (Little, Brown and Company, 2010). Mandela became a symbol of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, Smith told LiveScience.

Remembering Nelson Mandela: A tribute in photos and prose Posted: 05 Dec 2013 08:58 AM PST Nelson Mandela, the one-time revolutionary who ushered South Africa out of Apartheid, died on Thursday at the age of 95. The beloved leader and freedom fighter will doubtless inspire pages of eulogies even with just part of his resume — South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, philanthropist. And it was this thoughtful and mature Mandela who would lead South Africa into democracy, after the abolition of Apartheid in the early 1990s. At the end of his term in 1999, instead of launching a political personality cult from his popular presidency, Mandela opted to step down, thereby signaling that South Africa should be a government of the people rather than of a single leader.

Montana teachers take pension argument to court Posted: 05 Dec 2013 07:16 AM PST A judge told teachers in Montana Wednesday that he hopes to make a decision before the start of the year on their request to maintain pension inflationary increases until their challenge to pending cuts ...

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