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Dennis Dupree

Celebrating Mandela

A restaurant in Brooklyn — named for Mandela — says goodbye with flying lanterns

Global Politics

It was just one small remembrance in one part of the world. But the crowd that spontaneously gathered at a restaurant in Brooklyn to honor Mandela showed the effect that he had on people who never met him.

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