Politics: Nelson Mandela banned from visiting the US. oops! But they’ve fixed it:
The good news is that the United States government has removed Nelson Mandela, Tokyo Sexwale and Sidney Mufamadi from its list of global terrorists. The bad news is that the removal is only for the next 10 years. ….
‘To make an exception for those who struggled against apartheid would require congress to change the law, and that would be a very lengthy process,’ (Virginia Farris, the public affairs spokesperson for the US embassy in Pretoria) said.
Via Wendy M. Grossman, who reckons myself and the other SpamAssassin guys are Mrs. Beeton. ;)