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...earth. Noting that getting a job is often just a matter of being in the right place at the right time, Honnet said. "Eventually people will end up with jobs--it's only question of how long it takes." He added that students may have to settle for more manual jobs than in past summers, or work a number of part-time jobs. Like Ruemelin, Honnet advised that students create their own jobs like house-painting and gardening, since, he said such work will always be available to the enterprising student...
...Ironically, I never use a baton," mused Maestro Jose Serebrier, who had gone to Mexico City as guest conductor for an Easter music festival. "I decided to use one for this performance because I thought it would help achieve greater musical control." Alas, it was manual control that was lacking when Serebrier stabbed himself through the hand in the midst of his appassionato performance. While blood splattered his white shirt, the wounded conductor went right on directing the 150-member chorus and brass-percussion ensemble in Mexican Composer Rodolfo Halffter's Proclamation for a Poor Easter. "I managed...
...generations of Roman Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists, a catechism was a manual of questions and answers on doctrine that youngsters were expected to memorize. In a book billed as the first "ecumenical catechism" since the Reformation, the Q.-and-A. format and many of the old answers are missing. Adults, not children, have been its readers since it was published in West Germany and Switzerland two years...
...those wars by just ending it, turned the full energy of the U.S. into a powerful appeal for all factions to stop the killing and devised a whole new program-"Rebuild Asia, Southeast," or RAS-to use the millions for reconstruction and reconciliation. But that is not in the manual of the Old Boys at BAWS...
...drawn 188. But even Fischer occasionally loses; in the past 16 years he has booted 61 games. To whom? At what age? Was he playing white or black? Did he blunder? Was he outgeneraled? Do any patterns of weakness appear? In the most intriguing chess manual of the year, Mednis ransacks all 61 games for evidence as to how the great man might just possibly be beaten...