Word: rez
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...and poor on a destitute Indian reservation, published an essay, "The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams," in Esquire. It earned a National Magazine Award nomination and was later expanded into a memoir of the same title that became a finalist for a PEN/Martha Albrand Award. That rez-to-riches tale of courage and redemption sounds like a Horatio Alger story, doesn't it? It should be a movie. Or at least an episode of A&E's Biography. Of course, I'm biased, because, well, it's my story. Kind...
...essential wisdom of Homo sapiens. Bless you. Tony Steblay Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. I hope that future person of the year choices follow the example of the selection of Bono and the Gateses, and signal recognition of what truly matters globally. María-Soledad Cervantes-Ramírez Mexico City Although I appreciate what bill and Melinda Gates have done for the unfortunate, perhaps in the future Time will choose not only people who give because they are wealthy, but also those who give despite their poverty. They are the true Good Samaritans. Samuel Mulia Jakarta While I'm sure...
...been known to flirt with higher literary flights, notably in The Club Dumas, but in his hard-boiled, mordantly funny, unapologetically entertaining Captain Alatriste series (of which this is the second volume), Pérez-Reverte firmly buckles on his swash and swaggers into the muddy, bloody streets of 17th century Madrid. It's a poor but proud city where tempers run high and everybody is ready to stab and/or shoot one another at the drop of a plumed, foppish hat and where a woman has just been found strangled in her sedan chair, along with a pouch of coins...
...weighs changes to the Valley of the Fallen memorial, it should consider the actions of both sides. Crimes and atrocities were committed in Spain by both Franco's Nationalists and the opposition Republicans. If the discussion is not evenhanded, half the Spaniards will not be represented. Antonio Pérez Rubio Madrid Franco is dead and forgotten in the minds of most Spaniards. We were ready a long time ago to lay him to rest. He and his supporters, an insignificant minority of Spaniards, do not play any role in current Spanish politics. You included with your story a photo...
...have been mistreated, or might in the future be mistreated), it’s Stephen. He doesn’t complain because he really doesn’t care. His energy goes to more important purposes, like re-reading his weathered copy of “On the Rez,” a book about Native American marginalization...