Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sport's new poster boy for greed, and while Boras might claim that this is unfair because everyone is grabbing, he's wrong. Pedro Martinez of the Boston Red Sox is certainly the best pitcher in the game. The Red Sox are presently engaged in a bidding war for free agent Mike Mussina, surely one of the 25 or 30 best pitchers in the game. Mussina will eventually be paid about $15 million per year--more than Martinez. And so sportswriters ran to Pedro last week anticipating a column's worth of Latin temper. What they got was this: Sign...
Strip away the layers of erudition--not that one would want to--and an elegant structure remains: a book about a boy and his mom; about the search for a father; about trying to find one's way in the world. The Last Samurai is an original work of brilliance about, in part, the limits of brilliance. And in literature as in life, DeWitt understands that what we like most of all is a good yarn...
Jonathon's father, Jon Kenneth Colombini, wants his boy back. "I don't think [Cuba is] a place for a child who has spent the first five years of his life in the United States, and knows the possibilities that exist for him here," he says...
...Last July the University of Georgia lost a lawsuit filed by female students who were denied admission because of an affirmative-action policy that favored men. Says junior Shanna Norris, 20: "It's not fair that a boy would get extra weight (in the admissions index) over a girl, but it would be better if there were more boys on campus...
...bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin's going to open up so many doors for you," High says. "You're going...