Valery Lapshin
ALMATY, Aug 31 (THE GLOBE)
Dear young lovers of English!
I have a great pleasure to congratulate you on the occasion of a new school year. I always gladly communicate with you, schoolchildren and students of higher educational institutions. And as now I have got a wonderful opportunity to address you, I would like to inspire you.
I wish you every success in this new learning year.
Always strive to acquire new knowledge. Read as much as possible in English. And if you have a chance to speak English with somebody in your city, then go up and speak English with him or her.
Love poetry. Poems are beautiful and useful for oral practice.
As-much-as-you-can practice will help you as you go on in life.
Love your own country and facilitate its growth and glory.
Good luck!
An Advice to the Youth
Till there�s time to contemplate
And look for better ways,
Take your chance not to be late
In sequence of days.
There�s a lot that should be done
By just beginning youth.
Try not to miss in your plan
The moment of truth.
Your Way
Boys and girls, be truthful, kind,
Be laborious and meek,
Love to learn, and you will find
Everything in life you seek.
Love your parents, sisters, brothers...
(The idea is not new!)
Be respectful to all others
Who are not adoring you,
Help the weak, the sick, the poor,
All in need you get in sight.
Go straight that way. Be sure,
Your life will be all right.
Man
Fishes use swift fins for swimming.
Dogs have legs for running fast.
Birds have wings... Are you all dreaming
To be free like them... at last.
Don�t envy and be kind.
Poor creatures, great and small!..
You are Man, and your mind
Makes you King among them all!
By Alessandro RAIMONDI
LUGANO, Aug 30
(THE GLOBE)
The new academic year will see, at USI, University of Italian Switzerland, a new management. Mauro Dell�Ambrogio, in fact, secretary general of the university since its opening, has resigned his prestigious post to join the private group Ars Medica.
During his direction the young university has constantly grown in terms of students attendance and importance, becoming, by now, a rooted reality in Canton Ticino, Switzerland�s Italian-speaking area, sharing also co-operating projects with much older universities in the Confederation and abroad.
Mr. Dell�Ambrogio has been replaced by Mr. Abino Zgraggen, who was covering the post of administrative director of Lugano�s two faculties of the university, Economic Sciences and Communication Sciences, an activity that will remain in his �scope of works�. In his new position, however, Mr. Zgraggen will have to co-ordinate supporting and organizational activities for all USI�s faculties, which means adding to the above mentioned ones also Mendrisio�s Architecture.
With Mr. Zgraggen�s the board of the university has cast another promotion, that of Mr. Michele Morisoli as administrative director of the university. He will also retain his former duty as administrative director of the faculty of Architecture located at Mendrisio, almost at the Italian border.
Mr. Marco Baggiolini has been confirmed president of the university, but the board has requested him a major involvment with the activity of the university, obtaining, of course, his consent.
These changes are meant to boost the university cohesion among the three faculties and between the two sites hosting the university structures.
Michele Morisoli is also a busy politician, seating at Canton Ticino�s Gran Consiglio (grand council), the regional parliament.
Valery Lapshin
ALMATY, Aug 31 (THE GLOBE)
Montessory education was founded in 1907 by Dr. Maria, the first woman in Italy to become a physician. She based her educational methods on scientific observation of children�s learning progresses. Guided by her discovery that children often teach themselves, Dr. Montessory designed a �prepared environment� in which children could freely choose from a number of developmentally appropriate activities. Now, nearly a century after Maria Montessory�s first �children�s house� in Rome, Montessory education is found all over the world, spanning ages from birth to adolescence.
Kazakhstan International School was founded by two companies, Gateway Ventures Pte Ltd. (CA), here in Kazakhstan and Family InRoads Pte Ltd. In Singapore. They saw the need for an international school in Central Asia and approached Sharon Robson to be the director.
The school opened its doors on September 1, 1998.
Rfzakhstan International School owns the school facilities and surrounding land. The building has been renovated to create a warm education environment for the children to learn in.
Grades: Preschool/Kindergarten
Adress: 102 Mate Zalka Street
Tel. (3272) 25-00-30
August 31, 1902 - George C. Poage of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, becomes the first African-American to win an Olympic medal when he places third in the 400-meter hurdles at the Third Olympiad in St. Louis, Missouri.
August 31, 1969 - Rocky Marciano, former world heavyweight boxing champion, is killed in a light airplane crash in Newton, Iowa.
August 31, 1986 - Eighty-two people are killed when an Aeromexico DC-9 airliner collides with a small private plane and crashes down into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, California.
August 31, 1997 - Lady Diana Spencer, former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales and youngest daughter of the Earl of Spencer, is killed along with her companion Dodi Fayed in a car accident in Paris. Tests conducted by French police indicate that the driver, who also perished in the crash, was intoxicated and likely caused the accident while trying to escape the paparazzi photographers who consistently tailed Diana during any public outing.
August 31, 1948 - Richard Gere was born (actor: An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, American Gigolo, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Cotton Club)
September 1, 1923 - An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale devastates Japan, destroying a third of Tokyo and the entire city of Yokohama. Nearly 150,000 people are killed and over two million are left homeless.
September 1, 1983 - A Korean Airlines 747 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after it strays into Soviet airspace near Sakhalin Island. All 269 on board are killed.
September 1, 1985 - A joint U.S.-French expedition locates the wreck of the Titanic roughly 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. The �unsinkable� ocean-liner sunk in 1912 after hitting an iceberg.
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