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...taciturn, slightly ponderous man whose compassion is totally implicit, yet somehow palpable - even when he?s overseeing the garroting of an informer. Forced by the Gestapo to play a deadly little game - a group of prisoners is given a running head start before the machine guns are fired, their reward being a delayed execution if they?re not hit - he at first refuses to run. What?s the point, he asks in voice over? He?s no more afraid of death than an animal in a abattoir and he?s sure that its coming to him sooner rather than later...
SARA BECKMAN, eighth-grader at O'Brien Middle School in Reno, Nev., after a trip to an amusement park to reward honor students ended abruptly when the buses encountered locked gates...
...with the Queen. She has never experienced anything else. That life, that knowledge, that wisdom is purely natural to her." Pamela Hicks agrees that the Queen, while gratified if people respond to her work, does not seek a conventional sense of happiness in it. Duty is its own reward: "She is very religious, but she is also philosophical. She feels she must do the job she has been given and that it will be for others to judge whether she has succeeded...
...This would have two chief advantages. First, it would ensure a more reliable supply of parties. If students want parties, they are likely to elect those who are likely to throw them. Second, it would firmly center social life on the House. Electing students to party suites would necessarily reward those most gregarious within the Houses. Voting would also give other residents more incentive to participate in House life. Some might fear that House elections will become a popularity contest. But this is a good thing. The house benefits far more from having sociable (read: popular) people living in party...
...however, graduation is reward enough. He pulls a laminated card out of his wallet. It's his Shelbyville High School diploma, miniaturized. "I'll always be able to look at that diploma and smile," he says. "It's the best thing I've ever done...