Word: bays
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...chaotic fuss. What did soothe him, however, was the prize money, as he frankly and cheerfully admits. "It was almost a million dollars," he recalls. "What I'm really grateful for is the fact that I could build a very nice house in a very nice little bay in St. Lucia with a studio...
...Nobel Prize isn't perfect. Not every great writer wins, and not every winner is a great writer. Still, the Nobel does bring the one thing every writer can always use, besides a nice house on a bay: self-confidence. "You could say, 'Oh, yes, it was time the prize was given to a black woman or to a Caribbean writer,'" says Walcott. "But one likes to believe that it is based on merit, even if it sounds flattering to say that." Sometimes literature's kiss of death, it seems, can be the breath of life. --By Walter Kirn. With...
When the Broncos take the field against the Green Bay Packers, there will be more at stake than Denver?s first Super Bowl win in five tries: The fate of a new stadium, whose financing depends on ballot approval of a sales-tax extension, could hang in the balance. In early 1997, polls showed community sentiment running strongly against a publicly financed new home for the Broncos. But now, in the euphoria of a 12-4 season record and three play-off wins, Denverites seem ready and willing to tax themselves for the even greater glory of their gridders...
Last week, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority added cops to the subway beats in the name of community policing...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority police requested assistance with a person struck by an Amtrak train. The victim, a white female, was located on the commuter tracks under the Walden Street Bridge...