Word: bryce
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That won't happen with Groove Theory. The New York City-based alternative R.-and-B. duo, composed of producer-instrumentalist Bryce Wilson and singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux, have a hit (their sweetly insinuative single Tell Me has sold more than half a million copies), and, happily, the rest of their debut CD, titled simply Groove Theory (Epic), amply lives up to that first smash...
...through her father's efforts that the princess found her prince. Izquierdo took parenting classes at the local ywca, and he enrolled one-year-old Elisa in the Y's Montessori preschool. She was a favorite pupil. Says the school's then director, Phyllis Bryce: "She was beautiful, radiant. She had an inner strength and a lot of potential for growth." So fond of both father and daughter were the Montessori staff members that when Izquierdo fell behind on tuition, they recommended his daughter to Prince Michael of Greece...
...took the Friends School's screening examination and passed. But according to Montessori teacher Barbara Simmons, she also began telling people that her mother had locked her in a closet. On one occasion she volunteered, "Awilda hits me. I don't want to go to Awilda." Montessori principal Bryce says she reported suspected abuse to both the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services and a child-abuse hot line--the CWA's second warning about Elisa. In response, Bryce has said, child-welfare workers made several visits to the Lopez home, "and then stopped, as they usually...
AWILDA IMMEDIATELY FILED FOR permanent custody. A cousin of Izquierdo's, Elsa Canizares, challenged the petition, alleging that Lopez was insane and abused the child. Bryce wrote in a letter to family court judge Phoebe Greenbaum that "Elisa was emotionally and physically abused during the weekend visitations with her mom . Teachers' observation notes are available." Bryce also enlisted the help of Prince Michael, who added his own letter...
From Utah, there's Representative Jim Hansen, compared by his detractors to James Watt, Ronald Reagan's steel-eyed Interior Secretary. Some of Hansen's proposals in Congress, like opening up lands near Bryce Canyon National Park, have gone nowhere at all. But as the new chairman of the National Parks, Forests and Lands Subcommittee, the eight-term Congressman, who has been trying for years to reduce federal lands, has thwarted environmentalists hoping to designate 5.7 million acres of Utah as wilderness. A Hansen-sponsored bill that was adopted by his committee in August would limit the new wilderness...