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...competition in these senior bowls will undoubtedly provide that, and not just the opposing West squad. The other two quarterbacks on Fitzpatrick’s East team are Purdue’s Kyle Orton and Louisville’s Stefan LeFors, both of whom are already highly ranked draft prospects...
...quarterbacks attending the Shrine game, however, Fitzpatrick is the only one from Division I-AA. In that bowl, he will split time with Stefan Lefors of Louisville and Kyle Orton of Purdue. The West roster boasts Hawaii’s Timmy Chang and Oregon State’s Derek Anderson...
This kind of instruction leaves nothing to chance. "In most schools the emphasis is on children's learning to read sentences," says Gina Callaway, director of the Schenck School in Atlanta, which specializes in teaching dyslexic students using the Orton-Gillingham approach. "Here we have to teach them to recognize sounds, then syllables, then words and sentences. There's lots of practice and repetition." And a fair number of what the kids call tricks, or rules, for reading. (Among the most important and familiar: the magic e at the end of a word that makes a vowel say its name...
...song was a runaway hit in Britain last spring, and from there Gray rode a wave of trans-Continental buzz. He is part of a generation of gifted young singer-songwriters-it also includes such acts as Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy and Beth Orton-who have thrived by providing an alternative to the numbing, bubble-gum conformity of pop, and the hard, forbidding edge of rap and metal. "The people who have bought the record are people who haven't participated in a long time," Gray says, explaining White Ladder's appeal. "It's got melody and a strong...
...that. There were very few American or international artists on display - no Britney, no 'N Sync, no Limp Bizkit, no Eminem. Instead there was a huge section of MPB that featured such younger artists as Marisa Monte (a fine young vocalist who is a bit like Dido or Beth Orton with some samba thrown in), the ska-pop-reggae band LS Jack, and such veterans as Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins and Gal Costa...