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  SAPA - 30 Jul 96 - PROOF THAT TRUTH HURTS - ONCE A HERO, NOW
Behr appeared at a writers' seminar in Cape Town in early July to reveal that while he was leading protests against white minority rule as a university student, he was reporting on his comrades to the police.
Behr, product of a conservative, white, middle class family, said he was willing to believe that "apartheid was okay" as a 22-year-old in 1986.
Behr's personal betrayal, and his acknowledgment that he continued spying even after he began to realise that apartheid was wrong, seems to hurt the most.
www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1996/9607/s960730a.htm   (1025 words)

  
 DAILY BRUIN ONLINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Behr read a passage from the novel, which explicitly described a sexual encounter between the young boy and his significantly older musical conductor/instructor.
The juxtaposition is especially clear as Behr's heartfelt descriptions of childish emotions, tempered with adult reflection, tackles serious political and social issues with the simple and frank clarity of a youthful voice.
Behr was born in Tanzania and raised in South Africa.
www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=2964&date=2/15/2001   (539 words)

  
 Embrace Book at Shop Ireland
Because Mark Behr's language is so dense with meaning and emotion, we can abandon ourselves to his care and trust that he will be honest in his unfolding of this delicate and deliberately told story, and we are not let down.
In Embrace, Mark Behr fashions this paradise in the South African bush, then brutally strips away everything, and allows us a rare opportunity to view this shattered world from the perspective of a man reexperiencing himself as a sensitive and articulate boy.
Mark Behr's Embrace,  to my mind infinitely superior  to his earlier novel The Smell of Apples, presents one of the most compelling  socio-political portraits of masculinity I have ever come across.
www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0349113009   (2186 words)

  
 Spectator, The: Intruders in the dust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mark Behr revisits the territory marked out in his debut novel The Smell of Apples - a childhood passed in South Africa in the dog days of apartheid, with all of the confusions and ambiguities which that entails.
Behr wants to turn all of our received notions on their heads, to discomfit liberal and reactionary alike.
Behr's portrait of the Afrikaner family, with its myriad prejudices and conflicts, is by turns affectionate and exasperated, and rings utterly true.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200003/ai_n8879408   (490 words)

  
 ZA@Play - Books: The smell of betrayal 11/04/00   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
For example, Behr uses Dominic and his parents to present not only a sane and accepting view of gay sexuality, but also as the voice of informed left political opinion.
Behr's tone by contrast is challenging in a sulky, adolescent way, perhaps partly because of the youth of his protagonist.
Prize-winning author Mark Behr's confession that he was a police spy is an audacious attempt at seduction, argues Nic Borain [12/07/96]
www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/books/0004/000411-behr.html   (1080 words)

  
 MEMBERS PRESENT: Brian Jennings, Bill Sheedy, Mark Behr, Cathy O’Brien, Judy Sassorossi (alternate)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Behr asked the applicant if they were agreeable with the decorative lighting suggested by staff.
A MOTION was made by Judy Sassorossi, SECONDED by Mark Behr, to close the public portion of the hearing.
A MOTION was made by Mark Behr, SECONDED by Brian Jennings, to grant Site Plan approval for the application by Eileen Blackwood for construction of a driveway crossing over an unnamed waterway at 2212 North Williston Road as depicted on a 4-page set of plans prepared by Trudell Consulting Engineers, Inc.
town.williston.vt.us /PLAN/drb/DR062601.HTM   (11116 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Smell of Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mark Behr's novel "The Smell Of Apples" is in many ways an amazing and remarkable story about a young boy named Marnus Erasmus living with his typical Afrikaner upper-class family near the ocean on the coast of South Africa.
Behr connects these two levels of time so masterly that the reader almost feels how strong the influence of his father was and how much his parents are responsible for what happens to their son.
All in all the novel by Mark Behr is a good introduction for readers who want to inform theirselves and who are interested in the apartheid system and the life of fls and whites in this period of time.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0349106266   (1216 words)

  
 PEN New Mexico | Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Behr is known as one of South Africa’s most controversial novelists for engaging openly with his own political past, as well as his insightful writing on race, gender, and power.
Mark Behr was born on a farm in Tanzania, East Africa, but grew up in the game preserves of South Africa.
Behr was educated in South Africa, Norway, and the USA.
www.pennm.org /events.html   (1439 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
In the reading of both the Behr novel and the Mbeki speeches, racial doublings and inversions emerge as rhetorical strategies for placing hidden questions of sex at the heart of diverging understandings of the apartheid and post-apartheid South African nation.
The author’s subsequent confession of his minor role as a police spy for the apartheid regime in his student years as Stellenbosch, and his use of his homosexuality as an alibi for this will be used to unpack the charged voyeurism of this scene in the novel.
It appears that the apartheid in post-apartheid, in the matter of sexual looking, has continued vitality, marking a continuity rather than a rupture between these eras, through an insistence that there can be no other way of looking at links between race and sex than voyeurism.
wiserweb.wits.ac.za /conf2003/hoad.doc   (210 words)

  
 Groundspeak - Benchmark Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
GERALD BEHRS PROPERTY AND THE REFERENCE MARKS ARE ON PROPERTY OF LAND OWNER OF MIMI DEE BUILDING WHICH IS BEING RESTORED.
BEHR STATED THAT THEY WERE PROMISED THE STATION WOULD NOT BE USED AGAIN AFTER THE TOWER WAS TORN DOWN IN 1966.
THE MARK IS 4 FEET LOWER IN ELEVATION THAN STATION AND 3 FEET SOUTH OF WOODEN RAIL FENCE.
www.geocaching.com /mark/details.aspx?PID=KU2629   (994 words)

  
 South African Arts & Culture: Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
There is still, it seems, a need to use fiction to explore our painful past, though in a way that is free of the duties, constraints and slogans of the apartheid years.
An example is Mark Behr's first novel, The Smell of Apples, which seemed to strike a chord with many white South Africans and became a bestseller.
This story of a young white boy growing up in the militaristic South Africa of the 1960s and 1970s does not portray public events or labour political themes, but rather goes inside the individual to depict the personal implications of living in a particular time under a particular ideological regime.
www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/saarts/literature1.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In addition to the side skirt GTO badges the model can be easily identified by its distinctive 18-inch alloy wheel design, which uses the original theme of the HK Monaro 327.
According to Mark Skaife, an integral member of HSV's Product Group, the new HSV Coupés are the best handling HSVs ever - a very big statement indeed considering some of the superb HSV models of the past and present.
Although the HSV suspension hardware, including Multi-link, is carried over from the sedan models, HSV engineers were able to capitalise on the more rigid torsional characteristics of the Coupé's chassis.
www.hsv.com.au /news/2001/hsvcoupe.htm   (1588 words)

  
 CITY COUNCIL
Behr indicated he moved to South Burlington about 2-1/2 years ago.
Behr said if he were directly affected, he would recuse himself; other than that, he was not uncomfortable with making decisions.
Chris Smith moved the appointment of Mark Behr to the remainder of a three-year term expiring in June 2005 and a new three-year term expiring in June 2008.
www.south-burlington.com /CityCouncil/agenda_min/Minutes.04-18-05.htm   (820 words)

  
 The token foreigner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Because he hasn’t had enough time to destroy his brain-cells he takes it apon himself to do most of Just Sundays organisation and web work.
Mark is hot stuff and we don’t mean because of his looks but
Mark plays Custom Warwick Streamer Jazzman through and 250 watt Ashdown 2 x 10, soon to add a 15 inch
www.justsunday.co.uk /merk.htm   (79 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Embrace: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The great strength of the novel is that it places Karl's passions on a wider canvas, focusing on his raw passions and elemental drives against the landscapes of Africa.
It is a staggering follow-up to Mark Behr's award-winning first novel, THE SMELL OF APPLES.
Customers who bought books by Mark Behr also bought books by these authors:
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0349113009   (1940 words)

  
 Embrace by Mark Behr
I can only echo what Lucien and Jones have said about this book, other than to say Behr needs to understand when to use 'who' and "whom'.
Since I unashamedly liked having an epilogue to Crime and Punishment that wrapped things up (Dostoevsky originally didn't feel it was necessary, but his publisher did) I would like a follow up novel to resolve Karl's growth to adulthood and Domenic's too for that matter.
After the success of his first book ('The Smell of Apples') he confessed to having spied for the government and later for the ANC while he was a student leader.
www.book-summary-review.com /Embrace-0349113009.htm   (1215 words)

  
 The Smell of Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Note: Books marked with an asterisk* have been ordered but may not yet be in the library.
Mark Behr talks about his working with South African Security
Reaction to Behr’s working for South African Security and a Response by Mark Behr http://www.nd.edu/~com_sens/november/odonnell.html
library.spokanefalls.edu /The_Smell_of_Apples.htm   (656 words)

  
 Development Review Board: Minutes2/24/04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
A Motion was made by Carson Cornbrooks and Seconded by Mark Behr to deny Village Associates request for preferential phasing.
A MOTION was made by Mark Behr and SECONDED by Brian Jennings that the Development Review Board deny the application SUB-04-23 by Scott Gardner to subdivide an existing lot into two lots on Oak Hill Road as shown on plans prepared by Champlain Consulting Engineers and the applicant stamped received January 29, 2004.
A MOTION was made by Mark Behr and SECONDED by Kely Barland to adjourn.
town.williston.vt.us /PLAN/DRB/DR022404.htm   (6901 words)

  
 Untitled Document
It would seem Australians aren't the only fans of the awesome Holden Special Vehicles range of cars, if statistics and feedback from the company website are any guide.
The HSV version of the new Monaro Coupe will be on line soon, there will be a summary of the current V8 season, when it finishes in early December.
The HSV site showcases HSV's full range of vehicles and accessories as well as allowing access to up-to-the-minute information on the Holden Racing Team.
www.hsv.com.au /news/2001/hsvwebsiteint.htm   (564 words)

  
 Aussie V8 - Superfast Ford fuels speed row
Ford Performance Vehicles product planning manager Mark Behr acknowledged the decision not to release the figures was prompted by recent complaints about car advertisements highlighting the maximum speeds of powerful cars.
Independent tests conducted by The Courier-Mail show the car can reach 100km/h in second gear but its top speed was not found.
Mr Behr said Ford's advertising campaign, under the Performance Inc name, would work responsibly within Advertising Standards Bureau's new codes of practice.
www.aussiev8.com.au /printthread.php?t=463   (1043 words)

  
 Wilson Residence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
This house was completed in September 1999 and was awarded a Gold Medal by the Home Builders and Remodelers Association (HBRA).
Contact Us Mark Behr (Project Lead, VT Office)
Copyright © 2000-2005 Richard Henry Behr Architect P.C.
www.rhbpc.com /wilson_main.htm   (99 words)

  
 Abebooks Search Results - BEHR MARK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Front fly leaf has tear -- no creasing, marks.
Light crease to spine, one or two small marks on page edges.
Good to VG condition with small mark on edge.
textbook-authors.abebooks.com /Author/89018/BEHR+MARK.html   (776 words)

  
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 Common Sense: November 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
When the Democrats Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro as Walter Mondale s running mate in 1984, she faced some of the worst invective ever heard in modern American politics.
Innuendoes first about links to lesbians and then to the Mafia marked the campaign.
But no Italian-American defense organization came to her defense, as they had for similarly situated men.
www.nd.edu /~com_sens/issues/old/v11/v11_n2.html   (12130 words)

  
 Media Blvd :: View Forum - Jason Behr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Media Blvd :: View Forum - Jason Behr
Announcement: Media Blvd presents the Jason Behr Store!
Behr Keepers #5..Because there is enough of him to go around
www.mediablvd.com /forums/viewforum.php?f=16   (236 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Mark Behr & Jule Yoshitomi Family Tree Page
Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Mark Behr and Jule Yoshitomi Family Tree Page
The Mark Behr and Jule Yoshitomi Family Tree Page
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familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/b/e/h/Mark-L-Behr   (91 words)

  
 Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 051115
However, the critical shortage of land and lack of resources further hindered China from beginning their own Industrial Revolution.
Labor-intensive agriculture and the Qing Dynasty's rules on restricted trade put a strain on the Chinese economy and thus trickled down to the people who were also facing other persecution and restrictions put in place by the Qing dynasty (Marks, 117-118).
All of this funneled into the Taiping Rebellion."
www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=smell+haptics+faqs   (3506 words)

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