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...child of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to South Africa, Kerzner grew up in the back alleys of Johannesburg, and was an amateur boxer before becoming a chartered accountant. He decided to go into the inn-keeping business after his parents bought a modest hotel in the coastal resort of Durban. Still in his 20s, he built the Beverly Hills Hotel, the country's first five-star accommodation. In partnership with South African Breweries, he eventually accumulated 30 hotels stretching from Cape Town across to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius...
...Barber created TV Books earlier this year. Each book is made on demand as orders come in, and “editioned prints and original artworks from its authors” are also available for sale. There is also TV Music, a page that, like the art pages, solicit amateur work as well as work by art star photographer Ryan McGinely and up-and-comer Aurel Schmidt. Most of the work received ends up on one TV subdivision or another. This strange approach is why some have termed the site an “editorial project?...
This was no amateur prank. Solid information is scant, but one thing is certain: a well-funded, well-organized, highly motivated group of people (good at keeping a secret of massive proportions) wants to get the word out that the Iraq war should end. At least by July...
...Lowdown: The report, published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, uses relatively simple language easily digested by anyone with an amateur interest in psychology (or who ever completed a high school science report). Although Skodlar, Dernovsek and Kocmur shy away from pinpointing the exact causes behind their observations - admitting that their research was hindered by a small sample size, the need to rely on second-hand interpretations of patients' problems, and the fact that the medical community's knowledge of schizophrenia has changed over the past century - their observations are enough to give us pause. While the underlying causes...
...into ball games and orchestra pits (his absentminded triangle-playing infuriated Leonard Bernstein), where his earnest failures made for excellent pieces. What comes through in each episode is Plimpton's unquenchable curiosity, a love of human folly--especially his own--and a modern shrewdness; his fame as a professional amateur begot more fame, which gave him even greater access...