Unit One 1
1.Strength to Love(1) 1
2.Strength to Love(2) 5
3.Shame 9
Unit Two 15
4.To Face Life with Courage 15
5.A Rifle,an Ax-(1) 21
6.A Rifle,an Ax-(2) 26
Unit Three 30
7.Life on Other Planets 30
8.With the Photographer 35
9.What Are You Afraid of? 41
Unit Four 47
10.The First Piano in a Mining Camp 47
11.How to Be an Employee(1) 54
12.How to Be an Employee(2) 59
Unit Five 64
13.The Louisiana Purchase 64
14.Henry VIII 72
15.What Makes a Leader? 79
16.A Man Who Had No Eyes 84
Unit Six 84
17.Diary of a Disaster 89
18.The Gift of Understanding 97
Unit Seven 102
19.My Mother s Hands 102
20.About Heroes 110
21.The Man on the Street and the Men on the Moon 115
Unit Eight 121
22.Was There a Golden Age? 121
23.An Italian View of the U.S. Campus 126
24.Simple Secrets of Family Communication 133
Unit Nine 139
25.The Leopold Locked Room (1) 139
26.The Leopold Locked Room (2) 146
27.The Leopold Locked Room (3) 152
Unit Ten 158
28.An Essay on War 158
29.Learning from Foreign Management 166
30.One of the Greatest Performing Artists of Our Time 172
Glossary 179
Key to Comprehension Exercises 198