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Minaya's mix of Spanish-speaking stars, including leadoff sparkplug Jose Reyes (who leads the majors in stolen bases), and goofy white guys like closer Billy Wagner and third baseman David Wright has yielded a team chemistry that includes healthy doses of loving abuse. "It's a beautifully vicious clubhouse," says former Met pitcher Ron Darling, now a team broadcaster. The players energetically hurl insults--especially at Wright, 23, the All-Star whose looks have inspired female fans to wear "Mrs. Wright" jerseys. "He thinks he's God's gift to women," says pitcher Tom Glavine. "We have to remind...
Laughter punctuates Alexis Wright's conversation like the call of a bittersweet bird. It's born of hardship and ambition, and the daily arguments she had with herself over the four years it took to write her second and latest novel, Carpentaria. What she was searching for was an authentic literary voice that could traverse a continent and tell its inside stories to the outside world. It's a struggle that has already found her an audience in France, where pioneering publishing house Actes Sud translated her first novel, Plains of Promise, and a collection of her short stories...
...country Wright sings about in prose is an ancient landscape crisscrossed by salty tides and cyclones, mining and mythology. A Waanyi woman born in the southern uplands of the Gulf country, near Cloncurry, Queensland, Wright has spent much of her life away from its fecund waterways, working in Aboriginal research and advocacy in Alice Springs and Melbourne, where she now lives. But in spirit she's still there?"It's clear," she says, "clear water, full of water lilies and turtles and fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked...
...approximately $146 million resolving special-ed disputes in 2000, when some 11,000 parents of disabled students asked for due-process hearings to try to get more services for their children. This year the Department of Education expects about 14,000 parents to request such a proceeding, which Peter Wright, a special-ed attorney in Deltaville, Va., likens to a cross between a nasty divorce and a medical-malpractice suit. Each side feels betrayed by the other, and each brings in a slew of expert witnesses. "The cases that are on the table tend to be really difficult, thorny questions...
...enjoyable to watch as it is infectious, no prior knowledge of music or musical notation is required, and “First Nights” provides a thorough introduction to classical music. Another gem of a Core is Lit and Arts B-34, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb.” The class features some hard grading, but Professor Neil Levine is interesting and knowledgeable. There’s a lot of reading, but you don’t need to do all of it to follow along...