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Born in Budapest, Munk immigrated to Canada in his teens, after World War II. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before launching a consumer-electronics firm in the 1950s, only to see it succumb to U.S. and Japanese competition. Munk then built a chain of resorts in Fiji, called Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods...
...repetitive vocals grow increasingly urgent against the guitars’ violent strumming. “Don’t let the darkness eat you up,” he pleads, once, twice, eight times. But the pig-man, deaf to the music, can’t help but succumb to his rage. The final scene shows him angrily setting a vehicle on fire, then staring into the destruction. Some music videos are made purely to entertain, while others are made to instruct. By using the extended allegorical image of the swine to represent sloth, greed, and wickedness, and mixing with...
...that the path to peace and democracy lay not in military intervention or political overhaul but in gainful employment for the people. Jobs, he believed, would produce a middle class; jobs would buttress faltering economies; and jobs would give young people hope, income and something to do other than succumb to extremist dogma...
...enemies of life will never fully crush the human spirit. It is true that even a dedicated young slob like me occasionally feels the pressure to succumb to head to the gym, forgo red-meat, or give up my beloved beer and cigarettes. But I take heart from the words of my Shakespearean avatar, Falstaff: “I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be, virtuous enough: swore little, diced not above seven times a week, went to a bawdy house not above once in a quarter of an hour, paid money that I borrowed three...
Your article on the growing number ofcheating students reported that 67% of respondents to a survey admitted to having cheated. I can imagine that many readers opened their eyes wide in surprise, but we students did not. Even the most honest straight-A students will succumb to the pressure of cheating more than once in their academic career. Students will always stay three steps ahead of administrators in this game. Schools should go after repeat cheaters rather than one-time cheaters. And perhaps teachers should spend less time being worried about the honesty of their students and spend more...