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Frustration leads to overreaction. Patrick Cole, Australia's High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, was declared persona non grata by the government of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Sept. 12. Sogavare's charge was that Cole was interfering in local politics and too frequently consulting opposition politicians. Canberra had argued strongly against a proposed inquiry into this year's riots in Honiara. Two M.P.s aligned with the government are in jail facing charges relating to the violence, which razed Chinatown. According to Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Cole's expulsion was outrageous; he smells a rat. "The real motive...
CORNELIUS NICHOLAS BARKER Minister The Manasseh Cutler Church (Congregational) Hamilton, Mass...
...mother of Ephraim, the younger son. Jacob blesses his grandsons, thus adopting them in effect and admitting them to the tribes of Israel. But against all custom, he is inspired to bless Ephraim first. Joseph gently tries to guide the patriarch's hand to the head of Manasseh, explaining that he is the elder. Jacob, filled with prophetic spirit, replies (Genesis 48:19): "I know it. my son, I know it: he also shall become a people and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become...
...genius for making light and darkness speak, Rembrandt surrounds the entire scene with a deathly shadow, concentrates the light mainly in Jacob as that moment's vessel of God's will, and then makes it leap and pour goldenly past the dark head and hurt eyes of Manasseh upon fair-haired Ephraim, who shines like his grandfather...
Flexible & Convenient. Hoping to cash in on the demand, several companies have already started building the new prefab schools. In Hamilton, Mass., Stoner Associates of Boston has just completed a two-classroom addition to the Manasseh Cutler School. It is built of aluminum, glass, steel and Fiberglas, is complete with heating, plumbing, TV and furnishings. Cost: $22,500 per classroom. Another Boston firm, Structo Schools Corp., is planning to build modified prefabs, rent them to communities that have reached their bonded-debt limit...