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...LEONTE HOFMAN Chicago...
...everything from union pressure to slack doctors to sneaky employers. In the Czech Republic, for example, it's not just the workers that abuse the system. Since the government picks up the sick-pay tab, some employers put workers on sick leave during seasonal drops in demand. As Jiri Hofman, deputy minister of labor and social affairs, told Time: "Some companies suddenly report that almost 100% of their workers are sick. It's as if they've been hit by plague." Between August 2000 and August 2001, Germany's Betriebskrankenkasse des Landes Berlin (bkk) - a state health-insurance scheme - made...
Other events include a lecture-demonstration on piano accompaniment of silent films by Charles Hofman, film curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a poetry-reading by Robert T. Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature...
...Collins", the best story in The Cape Cod Lighter, carries this message of brotherhood. Through his friendship with the eminently successful Whit Hofman, Pat Collins builds up a good business. But there is a hitch: Pat's wife loves Whit and seduces him. When their affair ends, Mrs. Collins confesses to her husband, and his world collapses. Not sin, but Pat's loss of his friend brings failure. He loses all faith in himself. As his world crumbles, Pat spends his evenings at a speakeasy where he befriends a lonely elderly millionaire who has spent 35 years writing a life...
This is the world of French Cartoonist Jean Effel (concocted from the initials of his real name, François Lejeune), whose whimsies about the first two chapters of Genesis have made bestselling booklet after booklet in France. He also collaborated with Czech Movie Director Eduard Hofman to make a 90-minute feature film out of the series. The result, called The Creation of the World, took top prize for animated cartoons at this year's Venice Festival, and won the Silver Gondola for excellence awarded for educational and cultural films...