Spotlight - 14.2019

IN THE SPOTLIGHT 14/2019 Spotlight 7

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Age: 9

From: Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, India

Background: Despite coming from a poor family, Kamali has

become a skateboarding champion and has travelled around

India to promote the sport.

Famous because: She and her mother are the subject of a

short film, Kamali, by New Zealand film-maker Sasha Rain-

bow. The film won the Best Director Award at the 2018

Mumbai International Short Film Festi-

val and the Best Documentary Short Award

at the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival. Now, it has

been shortlisted for the 2020 Academy Awards.

Xxxxx

THE NEWCOMER

Kamali Moorthy EASY

...I don’t

subscribe to

the idea that

university is

the be-all and

end-all of

education.

debt [det]

, Schulden

degree [di(gri:]

, Abschluss

subscribe to sth.

[sEb(skraIb tE]

, sich etw. anschließen

the be-all and end-all

[DE )bi: O:l End (end O:l]

, das A und das O

— Jack Bloomfield, Australian

self-made millionaire and high-

school student, in The New Zealand

Herald. He says some university

degrees create enormous debt and do

little for people’s careers.

Academy Award [E)kÄdEmi E(wO:d]

, Oscar

shortlist sth. [(SO:t)lIst]

, etw. in die engere Wahl ziehen

AUSTRALIA

One big,

unhappy

family EASY

On 14 August 1987, police in Victoria,

Australia, visited an isolated house by

Lake Elidon. Inside, they found mem-

bers of The Family, a notorious cult.

One of those discovered by the police

was 15-year-old Ben Shenton.

Like the other children in the cult,

Shenton had had a cruel childhood. He

had been told, falsely, that the cult lead-

er, Anne Hamilton-Byrne — who said

she was Jesus Christ — was his mother,

and that the world would soon end. He

has told the media that it was difficult

for him to learn to live in the real world.

Now, though, Shenton, who has a

wife and two adult children, is writing

a book, called Life Behind the Wire, about

what he learned from his upbringing.

cruel [(kru:El]

, grausam, herzlos

notorious [nEU(tO:riEs]

, berüchtigt

Some call it paranoid. To

others, it’s good strate-

gic thinking: Fruitport

High School (FPH) in

Michigan has planned

a major renovation

to make it tougher for

gunmen to kill students by building,

for example, curved hallways.

“If I go to FPH and I want to be an

active shooter, I’m going in knowing I

have reduced sightlines,” Bob Szymo-

niak, the school’s superintendent, told

The Washington Post.

The curves will reduce a gunman’s

ability to shoot over long distances,

and a series of low walls will provide

additional cover. Classrooms will be

easy to lock from the front office, and

will include “shadow zones,” areas in-

visible to a shooter looking through

the window of a classroom door. Such

zones will provide good places for stu-

dents and teachers to hide.

“Unfortunately, that’s the way

things are now,” said Matt Slagle of

TowerPinkster, the Michigan archi-

tectural firm behind the project. “We’ll

never make it completely safe from

someone who wants to cause harm.”

curved [k§:vd]

, kurvenförmig

hallway [(hO:lweI]

, Gang, Flur

harm [hA:rm]

, Schaden, Unheil

invisible [In(vIzEb&l]

, unsichtbar, unein-

sehbar

sightline [(saItlaIn]

, Sichtlinie

UNITED STATES

Bullets and

books EASY US