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...that was a part of my poem, "Who Am I," which basically describes me. I was born and raised in Miami, Fla., by my Haitian parents Marie and Dany Nemorin. Poetry is a big part of who I am. The poets who interest me the most are Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. I used to wonder how poetry captivated me, but then I realized that music minus instrument = poetry. Most of the poems I wrote at the beginning of my 7th-grade year were about my crushes, but as the school year ended I started...
...little cocky. MEL GIBSON, whose The Passion of the Christ earned nearly $1 billion despite its ancient dialogue, is planning another violent epic in a language understood by practically no one. This fall Gibson will head to Mexico to direct his historical action script Apocalypto in an obscure Maya dialect. Luckily "it doesn't appear like there's going to be a lot of dialogue in the film," says Gibson's publicist. "He's a very visual director." In that case, we suggest Gibson next tackle a romantic comedy in Sanskritto be called the Kama Sutra...
...since 1992 has the second-in-command of the UC resigned, when vice chair Maya G. Prabhu ’94 was accused of tampering with ballots...
...Maya Masterworks...
...believe your article on touring exhibits of Maya art [ART, July 15] gives the mistaken impression that the objects dredged out of the sacred well at Chichén Itzá were resurrected from basement obscurity at the Peabody Museum. The Peabody Museum is a research and teaching institution whose major priority has never been public exhibition. However, the collections from the sacred well have had significant exposure over the past 50 years. Our museum has developed a nationwide collection-sharing program, pioneered by Frances Silverman and Lea McChesney, to make the rich resources of the Peabody available to others. Karl Lamberg...