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...American presidents in his bedroom. Within weeks he had memorized every name, and he was already picturing his face in the blank spot the poster had left for the 43rd president. His mother, A. Maria Ballesteros, said she got used to explaining to friends that she and her husband weren’t forcing Chris to memorize anything. “Otherwise they’d think we were weird parents,” she said. Chris was just an unusual child. Since his toddler years, Chris said, his prospective path to the White House has changed...
...where Dunham raised Obama as a boy and where Soetoro-Ng later cared for her. In the post-election e-mail, Soetoro-Ng writes of the sometimes conflicting emotions surrounding her grandmother's death and brother's success - and of the need to unplug for a while with her husband Konrad and their 4-year-old daughter Suhaila on Oahu's rural North Shore. She writes that she has been flooded with e-mail messages "of both congratulation and condolence .... There's a wide swatch of emotion cutting through me, sometimes swirling, never simple ... a briny mixture of elation, sadness...
...Bolaño moved to Europe and misspent an entire decade there as an itinerant laborer, living the life of a poète maudit and striking up an acquaintance with heroin. But in 1990, finding himself a husband and father, Bolaño decided to kick the smack and take up writing fiction in the hope of supporting his family. His prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked...
...more melodic song) and recitative (a sung narrative) it requires more sudden changes in gestures and facial expressions. Hargis also worked with the character of Erisbe (Felicia Plunkett) on her two duets: one with the title character, Ormindo (Jay Smith) and the other featuring Erisbe’s husband, Amida (James B. Onstad ’09). In these duets, Hargis pointed out that in Baroque performance practice, the two characters did not need to look at each other throughout the entire scene. Thus, when their lyrics seem to be an aside, they can look out to the audience...
Kristin Fraser Cotte and her then boyfriend (now husband) took that idea to the extreme when they embarked on a two-year sailing trip through the Caribbean. They were already boat enthusiasts, but nothing could have prepared them for two years spent on a 30-foot boat. "We learned everything about each other - both the good and the bad," Cotte laughs. "I learned that Pete is a zombie before his morning espresso - he literally has no recollection of conversation before coffee...