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MARRIED. Colleen McCullough, 46, Australian meganovelist (The Thorn Birds) who for three years has lived on tiny Norfolk Island, 900 miles east of Brisbane; and Ric Robinson, 33, Norfolk Islander who two years ago painted her house to earn money for a palm plantation; she for the first time, he for the second; near Sydney...
Kalait is a collection of smashed huts, thorn trees and wrecked vehicles. The army's divisional headquarters is a green canvas tent captured from the Libyans. Inside, sitting with legs crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade...
...school system geared primarily toward accomodating the status quo, academically gifted children have always been a thorn in the side of educational policy makers. If educators support funding for academic programs tailored to gifted students, they perpetuate the unjustified, though in most cases understandable, stigma of elitism surrounding such programs and risk alienating the parents of less talented children. Conversely, if national policy makers neglect gifted children at the expense of the majority, those who have the money go to private schools, while those who cannot, become bored, unchallenged, and fall through the cracks of the school system...
James Alexander Thorn...
...Jackson campaign workers used an age-old tactic: if the candidate is not getting enough attention at home, send him abroad. With Reagan's foreign policy becoming a growing thorn in his side, Jackson's concern for Goodman was well-timed. But Jackson has a history of such maneuvers. He has become the most recognized Black leader since the Civil Rights Movement, without running or holding any political office. When his Operation PUSH was under investigation for questionable financial shuffling, where was Jackson? Lending his support to Black mayoral candidates Harold Washington. Mel King and Wilson Goode, so that their...