Word: problems
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...universal problem. One of the tourists came back from a water-polo match to report that the public-address system in its English version (Russian, French, and English are the official languages of the Games) would announce that such and such a player penalized with a time expulsion was being "exploded." "Vanderfleet of Australia has been exploded," a sepulchral voice would announce to the spectators...
Rural poverty is a problem...
What those fancy titles mean is three weeks of intensive class sessions with professors drawn from the K-school and elsewhere, three weeks of case studies and problem-solving, three weeks of getting to know people from all over the country who have the same problems that...
Whatever their enthusiasm, many of the tourists in my group turned out to have wrestled with the problem of the U.S. boycott. Some had emotional reasons for deciding to come-a string of consecutive Olympics going back to Mexico or Japan (they wore tinkling commemorative pins on their hats to prove it) that no presidential edict (even if they thought well of it) was going to break. A trial lawyer from Washington, D.C., told me that he was in Moscow because he had never seen an Olympics and he could not bear the idea of waiting four years...
...situation is familiar: a new boy in a tough school makes a couple of social blunders and finds himself the target of a bullying gang's wrath. But the method that undersized Clifford (Chris Makepeace) uses to solve his problem is novel. He persuades Linderman (Adam Baldwin), the biggest lad in his class, and one wrapped in a menacing silence, to act as his bodyguard. In the course of their nicely developed relationship, Clifford discovers that his new friend's silence is motivated by a dark but not dingy secret, which understanding can cure. By the time...