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18 Sep. 1998
South Africa's President Nelson Mandela raises his hands to quiet the crowd during a prolonged standing ovation at specially convened Harvard University ceremonies honoring him September 18 in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Mandela follows in the footsteps of U.S. President George Washington and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as one of only three men to have been honored by Harvard University with such specially convened ceremonies].
