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Book: Rooms in the House of Stone: The "Thistle" Series of Essays
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  1. Michael Dorris _ Rooms in the House of Stone:

    The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe's former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a token tuition charge for all grade levels. Equivalent to one U. S. dollar per year per child, this fee constitutes a burden to the poorest families, who have responded by sending only boys to classes. Too many of the girls . . . have resorted to prostitution in order to eat.
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  2. Michael Dorris _ Rooms in the House of Stone:

    Fear is a memory of better times. Fear is a dream.
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  3. Michael Dorris _ Rooms in the House of Stone:

    Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization."
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