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                    [Title] => Tina turns 40!
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It is indeed a milestone when a friend turns 40.

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Two Filipinos will make a historic open water swim in Cape Town, South Africa on Feb. 9, according to businessman and philanthropist, Consul of Georgia in the Philippines Buddy Cunanan.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://imageshack.com/a/img594/3232/lzzc.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1268137 [Title] => Thoughts of home on Mandela’s Robben Island [Summary] =>

Ardor still possessed the old man working as tour guide to the prison facility at Robben Island, now a museum.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1489939 [AuthorName] => Marian Pastor Roces [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img809/520/8n30.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1265285 [Title] => Making the world a better place [Summary] =>

Life is full of choices. And each of us in this life has the choice of how we want to impact the world. Some choose to leave the world a worse place than we found it. Some choose to leave it the same as they found it. Some choose to leave it a much better place.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1371351 [AuthorName] => James Michael Lafferty [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3913/5obe.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1265108 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Icon of freedom [Summary] =>

The United Nations Security Council observed a minute of silence as the world joined South Africans yesterday in mourning the passing of Nelson Mandela. The Nobel Peace laureate was a great leader in every sense: a man with greatness of heart who led by example.

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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are sending their wishes and prayers to former South African leader Nelson Mandela on his 95th birthday.

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Facing death without fear appealed to Nelson Mandela, then a prisoner on Robben Island during white rule in South Africa.

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Challenging African youth to seize a "moment of great promise," President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela's vision for equality and opportunity. Seeking to carve out his own piece of that legacy, Obama unveiled an ambitious initiative to double electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa, vowing to bring "light where there is darkness."

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South Africa's leader called on his country Thursday to remember Nelson Mandela not only for his years as the nation's first black president but also for his time as a revolutionary and a prisoner as the beloved figure spent his sixth day in the hospital.

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Nelson Mandela, fellow veterans of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and family have raised glasses of bubbly to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his release from prison.

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