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Antoine was a classical pianist and participated in the Harvard Theater scene, performing at Arts First this May and producing and co-composing the Class of 2007's freshman musical. He also enjoyed boxing and playing soccer...
...sprawling crime syndicates have penetrated so many areas of Mexican life. With the cartels estimated to make $30 billion from smuggling narcotics, the U.S. Treasury has named dozens of Mexican companies, from dairy farms to clothing chains, as money launderers. In November, the owner of a third-division soccer club, the Mapaches of Michoacán state, was charged with drug trafficking. Crime kingpins are also alleged to finance popular Mexican singers, who croon about the gangsters' exploits...
...limited triumph in getting his students to write "self-portraits," which reveal them, on the whole, to be addled by pop music, soccer, video games and hanging out in the hood. The emotional climax of the film comes when, angered by the behavior of two of his female students, who sit on a sort of school governing board, he tells them they're acting like "skanks." They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation...
Sometimes you have to plant them and then wait for a while. Years ago, I started saving all those T shirts from soccer league and school plays and breast-cancer walks, even after they no longer fit. They are in a box in the attic, awaiting the day my girls head for college and we patch them into a soft, stretchy quilt made entirely of their adventures and allegiances. Maybe someday we'll do the same for their sons and daughters, make a map of moments on their way to forever...
...Nalgene Tritan Wide-Mouth Everyday Bottle The reasonably priced U.S.-made Nalgene brand bottles have long been popular with sportsmen and women, office workers and soccer moms. But in 2008, the company found itself, along with other bottle makers, in the eye of a storm over BPA, shorthand for Bisphenol A, a commonly used plasticizer that some researchers suggest poses a health risk to humans. The debate goes on; meanwhile Nalgene is promoting a new line of BPA-free bottles. I tried the 32-ounce Tritan Wide-Mouth Everyday bottle, which holds enough water to hydrate you on a coast...