Word: matta
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...rush to recruit then? First and foremost, it's the pressure on coaches to win because the rewards are rich: Billy Donovan, coach of the national-champion Florida Gators, signed a new six-year contract that will pay him about $3.5 million annually. Thad Matta, coach of runner-up Ohio State, who already has a commitment from a 10th-grader, has a $2.5 million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace...
...inviting people to view the art in the space that inspired it. “My classmates and I were joking that we would love to go to her house,” Chou said. Heilmann seemed especially accessible to young artists like Chou because she discussed Gordon Matta-Clark in one breath and Metallica in the next. “High culture and popular culture are kind of evening out, so that it’s pretty much all the same,” Heilmann said, though she admits that “some [culture] is better than others...
...especially designed for children, hence the battalions of infants dressed as clowns, butterflies, fairies, pirates and superheroes. Like most blocos, it was typically Carioca, that is, loud, chaotic and great fun, which explains its success. "We're sick of the Broadway element [of official carnival]," said Roberto da Matta, one of Brazil's best know anthropologists. "It's a 12-hour show and no one can stand it. So if you go to the city center or to a praa [a square] and see folks having a good time, you join them. With blocos you don't have...
Amidst widespread criticism of its failure to provide security in Haiti, the morale of the 9,000-strong United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) took another blow Saturday with the death of its Brazilian commander, 58-year-old Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar. The shooting - an unconfirmed suicide according to Haitian news radio reports - occurred early Saturday on the patio of his apartment in the luxurious mountainside Montana Hotel, where many connected with the UN mission have taken up part-time residence...
...pol?tica y el arte tanto como lo es de la construcci?n. En su rol de activo contribuyente del partido dem?crata, P?rez asesor? al presidente Bill Clinton en asuntos relacionados con Cuba. Su colecci?n de arte incluye trabajos de importantes maestros latinoamericanos como Fernando Botero, Frida Kahlo y Roberto Matta, y es promotor del arte en espacios p?blicos. En todo lo que hace, P?rez refleja su credo de que ?cada vez que realizas una actividad, no s?lo est?s defini?ndote a ti mismo sino que est?s definiendo el mundo que te rodea?. Y la arquitectura de Miami es una muestra...