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...weeks ago, the Kenyan men lost their hold on the Boston marathon for the first time in 14 years. To comfort them, Kenyans quoted the Swahili proverb “kuteleza sio kuanguka:” to slip is not to fall. In other words, this is just a momentary setback, and life is a marathon, not a sprint. As their countrymen make light of the second-place position though, there is disquiet over a deeper problem. Kenya declined in international position, especially in the last Olympics, due to defection of its runners...
Both are logical candidates for the post of musical director if Chieti, their birthplace in Abruzzi, revives the defunct town symphony as a tourist attraction. Francesco's desperation for the job is the more comically visible, and his wife (Giuliana De Sio) tries to advance his cause by sleeping with a town councilor. Less obviously needy, Andrea pursues the job with a worldly resignation that contrasts to good dramatic effect with his rival's cookie-tossing eagerness for it. Luciano Odorisio's Dear Maestro is not much to look at, but it is shrewd in its examination...
...rush to the mountain has actually been a sprint. Last January, after coming across traces of alluvial gold on his land, Farmer Genésio Ferreira da Silvia hired a geologist to investigate whether there was a larger deposit. Word leaked out, and within a week 1,000 prospectors had descended on the farm. Five weeks later, there were 10,000 on Ferreira's property and another 12,000 nearby. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 lbs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret...
...what she lived for. She walked in beauty! She inspired heroism and sacrifice! Our students were taught to love her, even in kindergarten!" To which Genghis Cohn replies sardonically with a reminiscence of the moment when he and his fellow victims were digging their own grave before their execution: "Sio-ma Kapelusznik moved a bit closer to me, winked, and then said: 'Culture is when mothers who are holding their babies in their arms are excused from digging their own graves before being shot. We both had a good laugh. I'm telling you, there...
Died. Teodósio Clemente Cardinal de Gouveia, 72, Archbishop of Lourengo Marques in the Portuguese territory of Mozambique, a scholarly apostle of Catholic education whose elevation...