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Every Wednesday and Thursday night, John L. Smith goes to a janitor's closet in the Kansas City, Mo., Federal Office Building and rolls out a battered metal dolly. It holds a filing cabinet full of academic-achievement tests, a carton of mimeographed math and reading drills, and a pile of pocket-size dictionaries. "This is our school," he says. In the past five years, the cart's contents have brought 2,500 school dropouts all they need to crack the barrier between them and a better job: a high school equivalency diploma...
...Metropolitan Opera House. After ballet performances he sometimes bought back programs from departing customers and resold them at later performances, netting a small but perhaps significant capital gain. When he finally decided that he was not destined to become a great violinist, he put his fiddle into a closet and permanently gave up playing...
...UNITED STATES NAVY is one of the more respectable ways of serving your country. "Anybody with any self-respect would spend his four years in the Navy in a closet," says Third Class Lary Dinger, a Michigan State graduate with a Master's Degree in history...
...treasury of priceless furniture, rare tapestries and a collection of 60,000 documents and letters from kings, ministers and literary figures. Chopin's piano-a gift from George Sand-graced the gilded music room; the original manuscripts of two unpublished Chopin waltzes were discovered in a linen closet...
...definition, a bore is someone whose presence or persistence creates in others a galloping case of ennui, an urge to hide in the nearest closet, a yearning to down another martini. The ranks of the world's bores are not limited by hierarchy or elitism: they include both the heroes of the minute, beaming amiably across the tube, as well as the inglorious Miltons who prattle on about stamp collecting. Institutions can be boring, like the Organization of American States, and so can events. Is it possible for even the most politicized Italian to care any more about those...