Word: wrighting
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...welcome to debate the violence and the presentation of a Southern black (Jeffrey Wright, impeccably conflicted) fighting for the flag of slavery. But for all the period dressings, this could be a deadpan study of why kids in Sarajevo, Belfast or South Central pick up guns and start spraying the street. And for all the carnage, Lee's tone is contemplative. He pines for those quiet moments when a wounded man can sit holding a baby, the newborn sucking on the man's nubbin of a blasted-off finger...
DIED. GEORGE FORREST, 84, Tony Award-winning composer; in Miami. With longtime partner Robert Wright, Forrest wrote songs for the musical Kismet and later for Grand Hotel...
...help with that effort, the board has recruited Rod Wright, president of Attitude Research, a St. Louis polling firm that specializes in school-finance votes. Fortunately for Webster, he has kids in local schools and donates his time. The goal, he advises the board, "is to get people to vote their emotions and aspirations--and not their pocketbooks...
That is becoming tougher and tougher to do, acknowledge Wright and others close to the school-financing issue. Caught in the nationwide movement to induce equity in school funding (state aid is capped at 1992-93 levels), the district is also hampered because Missouri requires a supermajority 4-out-of-7 vote on all school bond proposals. Then there are the unfunded government mandates, like the Americans with Disabilities Act, which forced Webster Groves to spend more than $1 million in the past three years on compliance...
...Still, Wright is optimistic. "The city has a history of backing these things when they're needed," he says. We benefit from having a population capable of paying higher taxes. In a lot of other places, people have a hard time making ends meet...