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...Muslim University in India, where the idea for TFTP took root. "I was affected by the poverty, the lack of technology and the contrast between rich and poor," he says. He went on to earn a master's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and a Ph.D. at Birbeck College in London. In the 1960s he worked in Washington as a U.S. Foreign Service officer for Asian countries. He went to Switzerland in 1970 to coordinate the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service, an intergovernmental agency based in Geneva; married a Swiss, Ruth Griwa, and stayed...
...Nick Van Alstyne, portrayed by Thomas Shearer, who, though a bit forced in the first act, becomes much more convincing and amusing as the play goes on-especially in his practicing how to appear and comport himself correctly in the presence of the snappy widow. The widow Olga Birbeck carries off the honors among the women-folk, particularly in the last two acts...
...June Atlantic begins with another installment of the letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, edited by George Birbeck Hill. This installment contains the letters for 1855. Striking features in this issue are an article upon The Politician and the Public School, by Mr. G. L. Jones, Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio; Restriction of Immigration, by President Francis A. Walker; and Lord Howe's Commission to Pacify the Colonies, an important historical contribution, by Paul Leicester Ford, embodying a hitherto unpublished manuscript...
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