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...would be understandable if Bulgaria--ancient Roman annex, Ottoman Empire conquest, Soviet Union satellite--wasn't all that welcoming to foreigners. But there I was in Sofia, on my way to the public drinking fountains where locals fill up old Coke bottles with hot mineral water, when a lady pointed out that the bottle of wine I was carrying had broken through its plastic bag. I tucked the bottle back in as best I could and said thank you--good deed done, as far as I was concerned--but the woman kept cheerily talking in Bulgarian as she emptied...
...classrooms Zanker first used borrowed offices or living rooms, then began renting public school rooms at $5 to $10 a night. To promote his curriculum, which he dubbed the Learning Annex, he took $5,000 that he had saved from his Bar Mitzvah, printed a course brochure, dressed up as a clown complete with whiteface makeup "to differentiate myself from people giving out porn stuff," and handed out the booklets in Grand Central station. Then he raced back to a tiny basement office in a building just off Central Park and waited for the phone to ring...
Ring it did, right off the wall, and the Annex was in business. Today 3 million Annex catalogs mailed out monthly offer short-order evening and weekend study programs on everything from boudoir photography to computer programming to women's body building. There are more than 300,000 adult students in twelve cities coast to coast. A typical course like Belly Dancing meets once a week for only four weeks?just right, says Zanker, for "people who don't have the time or the energy to take long-term courses and who don't care about credits." The price...
...sound like an LP played too fast. "Quality education we give, but in a showbiz atmosphere," he adds, drawing his legs up beneath him on his office chair and rocking back and forth as the words rattle out. "I give an average of 150 shows a night." The Annex is not the only show of its kind. In the past decade some 50 similar enterprises have started up, from California's thriving Learning Exchange and Learning Tree to Chicago's Discovery Center to the Open University in Washington. Zanker, who takes a modest $70,000 salary but holds $5.5 million...
Other Houses have also had their share of fire extinguisher troubles. Residents of the Kirkland annex could not go back into their rooms because a prankster discharged a fire extinguisher last Friday night. Firefighters argued it was a safety issue—the powder given off by the chemical extinguisher is harmful, they say—but students, weathering 21-degree temperatures that night, disagreed...