Jonathan Jansen, the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State, described to me the fear that the protests had engendered among older black South Africans – a fear that their hard-won progress over a bitter past was sliding backwards, or that it had never really succeeded to begin with.
Kastil and Kraus did succeed, however, to begin to publish posthumously some of the lecture notes, letters, and drafts he had left.
Cameron has given everyone who wants to succeed him permission to begin campaigning as soon as his hollow victory is assured.
Whether you want to work on being more social or being better in school, you can make a plan to succeed and begin to carry it out.
"The belief that being a good American involved behaving in certain kinds of ways, and that the nation itself relied upon a certain kind of people in order to succeed, had begun to fade and has not revived," Murray writes.
The ruling Conservative party is embroiled in its own drama, as the race to succeed Cameron begins to resemble Shakespeare or the "Game of Thrones".
The Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, intending for a Habsburg to succeed him, began to campaign on behalf of Charles of Spain, while Francis put himself forward as an alternate candidate.
Finally, psychiatrists who work in prisons tell us that the process of asking for a transfer is so time-consuming and so unlikely to succeed that they begin it only for the most extreme cases, leaving a long queue of severely mentally-disordered prisoners who ought to be transferred but who do not even get to the starting line (or show up in the government's statistics).
In fact, your story will be more interesting, more compelling, and more likely to succeed if you begin in the middle.
Regardless of where you are on the spectrum of belief, there's room for respect for those like Tim Tebow who succeed in inciting others to begin thinking about fundamental issues.
