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...Brian Garcia is not a particularly talented singer, but that doesn’t stop him from serenading his teammates during practice. Just ask offensive lineman Joe Mujalli...
Mujalli often finds himself in the unfortunate position directly across the line from Garcia when the 245-pound defensive end begins belting out the theme song from the TV cartoon show “Fraggle Rock...
KIPP was born in 1994, the brainchild of “Teach for America” alumni Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin. It started as a program for fifth-graders at Houston’s Garcia Elementary School. In 1995, the first KIPP-only schools opened in Houston and the South Bronx...
...Garcia Marquez, 75, who has been fighting lymphatic cancer since 1999, intends this book to be the first of three volumes. It ends with him as a journalist, just 27 years old, flying to cover a summit meeting in Geneva and writing a love letter to his future wife. By that time we have seen him grow up, mostly in the small town of Aracataca, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. For his first eight years, he saw little of his parents, whom he will reimagine years later as the thwarted couple in Love in the Time of Cholera...
...early schooling, his sexual initiation and maybe a few too many of his schoolmates--Garcia Marquez sets them all down. Eventually he travels to Bogota to pursue studies in law. But it's too late. His passion for words overtakes him. So does the bloody history of his country. By the book's end, he is becoming the man whose gifts will subdue that history and turn its pain into even further magic...