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Cleanup Week. When Vatican officials heard that Rome's professional pickpockets were already casing St. Peter's Square for areas of easiest pickings, they decided things had gone far enough. Last week a committee consisting of Rome's chief of police, chief of the carabinieri and a Vatican representative cleared all stalls from the steps of St. Peter's, banned all vendors, photographers and beggars from the square...
...Putnam's translation, Cervantes' style proves in English to be what it is in Spanish: one of the easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...
Inside Job. In Tokyo, Discharged Policeman Keiichi Hashiguchi confessed that he had stolen clothing and over $100 in cash from police headquarters because "[it] was the easiest place...
Unrealistic. The pound exchange rate is now fixed by Britain at $4.03. This rate has long been unrealistic in several senses. The easiest comparison is with free exchange rates in other countries. The pound now sells legally for $3.15 in New York and for $2.92 on the free market in Paris. These bargain pounds, however, cannot be legally taken into Britain (except for a ?5 tourist allowance), and cannot be used in open commercial transactions for British goods. A much better comparison supporting the argument that $4.03 is an unrealistic rate is the fact that $4.03 will buy more...
Holt never cared how many degrees his teachers had (of 105, only 21 have Ph.D.s) or how many A's his students got. He believed that students should "major in the subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought...