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Sure, I could have told him about the mysteries of science and the magical stories of history, and I could have explained to him that in order to get a job in town and escape the third-world living conditions of the community he would need to know how to read and do basic math. But the truth was John didn't want to work in town. He never wanted to leave the community of Atitjere, and he was happy enough with the legends that his grandmother told him and the wondrous science of his cousin, the witchdoctor...
...also chaired the committee that dealt with the thorny question of a Third World Center in the late '70s. Campus minority leaders had demanded a student center for multicultural pursuits, but the University was anxious to avoid racial divisions...
...earn a certification or accreditation, depending on what you're considering. That's the way Irwin Weinstein, 57, of Wyckoff, N.J., moved from the corporate world of IBM, where he worked for 29 years as a program manager, to a classroom at Elizabeth High School in New Jersey, where he's now a math teacher. After getting a buyout package in 1991 that included a year's salary, a full pension worth one-third of his salary and a guarantee of continued corporate-paid medical benefits for himself and his wife Judith, Weinstein went to the Teaneck, N.J., campus...
...third mistake," he adds, "was my feeling that the new book had to raise the stakes and include more than Bonfire, that I was obligated to write the biggest book in the world. So I spent 10 very expensive days in Japan looking for some way to get that country into the plot. And I also tried to work in some sort of television-news element and the life of an unsuccessful artist and the dealings of an unctuous insurance salesman, all of which required a lot of research and reporting and proved to be dead ends. I practically have...
...YANKEES: Of Casey Stengel's five straight champions, this squad won the most games and defeated an excellent Brooklyn team in the World Series. But look around the infield: Joe Collins at first, Billy Martin at second, Phil Rizzuto at short and Gil McDougald at third. Good players all, and not one of them would have started for this year's Yankees. Mickey Mantle had yet to hit 25 home runs in a season or drive in 100. And even the excellent starting pitchers of '53 don't match up against the six men who made up the fathoms-deep...