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...Afrikaners organized a fierce resistance to the British in the Boer (farmer) War (1899-1902). Outnumbered and outgunned, they took to the bush and engaged in guerrilla attacks (the word commando is one of their contributions to the English language). Britain's commander, Lord Horatio Kitchener, was no less fierce; he sent troops to burn down the Boer commandos' villages. Women and children were rounded up and confined in a new kind of establishment: concentration camps. Of the estimated 60,000 prisoners, some 26,000 women and children succumbed to famine and disease. When it was all over, the British...
...office leaves no doubt that Chung is a very successful man. And this might be an Horatio Alger story except Chung says it happened all by accident...
...merit-based system also might be unfair to students who, recovering from a freshmen slump, brought their grades up during their upperclass years. A built-in "Horatio Alger clause" would clearly be in order--entitling those with rising grade point averages to bump slumping students from their rooms...
Eighty-six years after his death, the name of Horatio Alger Jr. still conjures up unlikely memories of improbable dreams. In more than 100 of Alger's books for young readers, upstanding, hardwork- ing poor boys reached sudden and unexpected success by saving rich benefactors from terrible fates. But it turns out that Alger had a dream of his own -- to appeal to grownups. This July the Shoe String Press will publish for the first time Alger's Mabel Parker; or, The Hidden Treasure, a story of true love triumphing over mere monetary pursuits. Now in the archives at Syracuse...
...plot is basically faithful to a the Bible story (see the last bit of Genesis for the paperback version). Joseph is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and is taken to Egypt, where, in the the first known Horatio Alger story, he rises to the top and ends up saving his now repentant brothers. Mark Meredith as Joseph has a superb voice and just enough of the pretty boy look about him to make his putting on sunglasses look like a scene from Risky Business. The one petty fault with his performance is that he looks too much...