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...Slight, dark-skinned Cristiano is one of the lucky ones. After seven years on the streets, he moved to a shelter run by the Sao Martinho Aid Society. His room is small but clean. There is a television in the hall and food downstairs in the kitchen. The shelter kids work odd jobs during the day and go to school at night...
...little historical orientation: during the wild and heady days of Beatlemania, the premier rock group back in the U.S.A. was the Beach Boys. They were chart heavyweights but a little slight in the Serious Interest department: too light, too pop, too California. Then came Pet Sounds, a 1966 album that got glowing notices, heavy sales and -- crucial for the band's hipness quotient -- an awed response from the Beatles, particularly from Paul McCartney...
...damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving on this assessment. In Rome he has seen the statue of a broken-nosed, middle-aged gladiator. The fighter is seated, conserving his strength. "There is a slight look of befuddlement on his face," the narrator notes, "but there is no trace of fear...
Goldfarb is a slight, bearded man, often casually dressed in jeans and black Reeboks. Hardcovered philosophy books line the shelves of his large office, and a depiction of a cow amidst grass with the legend "Outstanding in the Field" adorns a mug sitting in the middle of his somewhat cluttered desk...
This is a slight variation on the Stanford plan The emphasis of this plan would be increasing participation Rudenstine's main concern while spending as little money as possible...