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Encouraged by the program thus far, Nhan Truong is planning a summer youth enrichment program. She expects to hire six counselors and to enroll 48 refugee children in the program. Nhan Truong said she hopes the counselors will live in the same neighborhood as the children to "see first-hand what the children have to live through." A Private curriculum developing consultant has agreed to help structure an academic program that emphasizes creative learning...
Adin was bored at school and far more interested in the struggle to establish the state of Israel than in spiritual questions. "I am by nature a skeptic," he remarks. But the youth who looked upon believers with disdain was slowly and inexplicably drawn to faith. "I never climbed high mountains or shot lions. The way to religion was the beginning of an adventure, and a very big one," he says. "It came to the point that this world was not enough...
...Carson or Barbara Walters to refute stories that they were ill with AIDS. Ringwald switched mentors, leaving John Hughes, who had made her a star with Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, for Warren Beatty. It didn't work. Their film, The Pick-Up Artist, was the Ishtar of youth comedies: better than its rep, but still a resounding flop...
...local residents. Dror, who speaks Arabic fluently, asks shopkeepers why their stores are closed. Says one: "I got a telephone call reminding me that there is a commerce strike for 21 days to protest the expulsions and killings." The call came from the Shabiba, a P.L.O.-affiliated youth group. A major instructs Dror, "Tell them to open the shops. Tell them we shall weld their doors shut and not let them open for a week." He points to welding instruments. Ten minutes later most shops are open. Grumbles one Arab: "The Shabiba will burn my business down...
This is not conscious comedy, but at times its humor surpasses anything in Ackroyd's far more appealing and sympathetic work. Yet each author provides the same service: turning the reader back to the damned youth who wrote, "Since all my Vices magnify'd are here,/ She cannot paint me worse than I appear,/ When raving in the Lunacy of ink,/ I catch the Pen and publish what I think." A ghostly presence hovers over both books, and the sound it emits is the ringing echo of the last laugh...