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...bookshelf in his bedroom is filled with scientific journals on aqua-farming, solar energy and the like. Brando's experiments in these areas are momentarily dormant because of a grandiose commercial enterprise that flopped, at a cost to him of $500,000. Two years ago Actor Brando became an innkeeper on Tetiaroa. On his tight little island, he constructed 21 thatch-roofed huts, including three bars and a dining room, and hired a staff of about...
...subjective evaluation. Because the usefulness of test scores is limited, students must eventually be judged in the context of their own respective cultures. While a comparable problem exists in U.S. admissions processes, sorting out educational systems on an international scale is infinitely more complex. Malin devotes an entire office bookshelf and much reading time to pamphlets explaining the varying educational philosophies of different nations...
Sissela does not want any material treasures to remind her of her childhood in Sweden, so the garret contains nothing Swedish except her own language hidden in the bookshelf. Others bring in any Swedish souvenirs the house may harbor. Her parents often bring her son gifts from their travels; orange blue painted wooden horses from Sweden line the mantel in his room. "Like the ones I had when I was little," she says. In the library downstairs there is a white marble bust of Sissela, sculpted when she was 11. Her parents wanted to give work...
...takes a pamphlet from his bookshelf and begins reading a passage from the Rhodesian criminal code: "Anyone is guilty of a criminal offense if he is absent from the farm during working hours, if he becomes intoxicated, if he refuses to obey any command of a master..." The list goes on. The punishment for such offenses ranges from caning and thrashing to two or three months in prison. Anyone unemployed for more then 30 days is also a criminal, subject to work on a farm for three months without pay, to receive "training" in such skills as digging ditches...
...Harvard between the wars. The editorial page, which had gone from one to two columns before the War, used its extra ten inches to take up the cudgels of a slow of new causes undreamed of before the War. Just before the new press was installed a supplement, the Bookshelf, appeared, and the Playgoer, a page of dramatic criticism made its first appearance in March...