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...Jealous Faculties. Latin American universities are further plagued by inefficient administration. Most schools are loose-knit amalgamations of once-separate faculties that jealously cling to their own identities and offer duplicate courses. At the University of São Paulo, which consists of 16 separate institutes and 68 affiliated units, chemistry courses are taught in 22 different buildings. Costs consequently multiply. Some third-rate regional universities in Brazil spend up to $4,000 per student for each year of study-about the annual cost of an education at Harvard...
...that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized at the time, she was with Roosevelt there on the day he died-April 12, 1945. To the very last, according to Daniels, Mrs. Roosevelt was "bitter and jealous of Lucy...
...shake hands at every important social occasion, and his own glittering cocktail parties were the talk of Saigon-as was his official car, the only Government vehicle in Viet Nam with white sidewall tires. Always ready to help out with a favor, he made lots of friends-and some jealous enemies as well-for rare was the day that his picture or his name did not appear in the city's newspapers. And whenever Viet Cong terrorists bombed one of the hotels he had turned into military billets, he always rushed to the scene to direct rescue operations...
...Just because you ole hags can't appreciate good music or play gutiar worth a jellybean dosen't mean you have to go protesting about the Beatles. We think you're jealous because your stupid magazine isn't selling as well as the Beatle Albems. For petes sake, why go knocking the Beatles around? There doing better then you. By the way, both of us agree that Norwegian Wood and Day Tripper are not undecent. Where did you get that idea? Take our advice: state the right facts or flake...
...Ganges Delta, of the slow cycle of the Indian year, from Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, back again to the Moslem festival of Muharram. In a muted way there was tragedy, too. The sisters tell how Nitai, their meek sweeper, killed his beautiful daughter in a jealous rage after she moved in with Guru, the Godden family's gatekeeper...