The Intelligence: Mandela’s vision, tested
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Thirty years of democracy have not led to uniform prosperity, and nearly everyone disagrees about the equality of opportunity. How will the disenchantment manifest at the polls? How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America (12:16). And a tribute to Eleanor Coppola, mastermind of the award-winning behind-the-scenes look at her husband’s epic, “Apocalypse Now” (19:26).
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| 0:57.0 | Patent cases are big business, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. |
| 1:02.0 | A few entrepreneurial judges have made two pretty small |
| 1:06.7 | Texas cities havens for these lucrative cases, but is that a good thing? |
| 1:13.0 | And just out of shot on the sets of Apocalypse Now, |
| 1:17.0 | Eleanor Coppola was capturing the chaos behind her husband's production. |
| 1:21.0 | Her award-winning film and her book detailed how it all so nearly |
| 1:25.9 | came undone. But first. doing the victory dance tonight Nelson Mandela. |
| 1:48.0 | A little more than 30 years ago Nelson Mandela and millions of other |
| 1:51.1 | black South Africans voted for the first time. |
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