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...think accidents happen only to other people's kids. Having trained one of my teenagers to drive, I concur with your story's conclusion that adding new laws and restrictions on teenagers is a good beginning, but parents must add more rigor and oversight as their children are taught to drive...
DIED. Mose Tolliver, believed to be in his 80s, factory worker turned folk artist known as Mose T who became one of the leading figures in the Outsider Art, or self-taught, movement; in Montgomery, Ala. Tolliver began painting compulsively in the 1960s after an accident at a furniture factory left his legs crushed. His lyrical pieces, which he made with house paint and hung in his front yard using dental floss, first drew curious buyers, then eager galleries. The paintings--of bold, bright, sometimes grotesque women, birds, flowers, snakes and trees--are now in the permanent collections of major...
Alice Munro spins tales that show us, again and again, and with wondrous grace, how much can be done in a simple short story. Yet the 74-year-old Canadian does it by breaking every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up a master class along the sidelines. Her latest--her 11th--collection of stories, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf; 349 pages), marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir...
...great performance for senior captain Laura Odorczyk’s last collegiate game, the Crimson seemed to put its past troubles behind it and made the league’s top team earn its title.“Throughout the course of the season, the team has been taught to pick themselves up and keep going,” head coach Erica Walsh said. “It’s a credit to the character of the team. They’ve been fantastic to that end. They’re not going to stop battling even if their...
...holder in shutouts (15) and goals-against average (1.92), directed the Crimson to three straight ECAC tournament titles, back-to-back NCAA Championship games in 2004 and 2005, and the Frozen Eight quarterfinals a year ago. “Watching her play, seeing how she handled different situations, it taught me a lot,” Martin says. “She put me in a situation now where I think I can fill her shoes and I’m glad to be there.”When Boe was sidelined with a concussion in early February, then-junior...