Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...defect but was plucked from the sea and hauled back to his homeland, where a year earlier Castro had personally congratulated him for hitting the winning home run in an exhibition game against the Orioles. On Thursday, Morales, 25, who left behind his wife and seven-month-old son, met his new signing agent outside the INS detention center in Florida. When asked if he considered himself a political refugee, Morales answered, "No, I'm here to play baseball...
...good painter of adults, pensive servants especially--who never, it should be noted, become illustrations for a lecture on class--but his children are marvels. A young boy, the son of one of Chardin's collectors, soberly kitted out in black tricorn hat and mole-colored coat, is attentively building a house of cards--that emblem of fragility that nonetheless does not fall. Another lad, not 10 years old, watches with the most exquisitely rendered absorption the fate of a spinning top on a writing table; it leans under the pull of gravity but is still (only just) erect...
...Together] to the album I just did [Born for You]. I want to spend more time being that fulfilled creatively. I also did an episode of Touched by an Angel about a woman who's committing suicide. The angel Monica saves her life. Cody [Gifford's 10-year-old son] immediately said, "Oh, rats." He wanted me to jump. I said, "Cody, you're not alone. A lot of people want me to jump...
...case, the money would come from the son of a man who remembers his family's being treated kindly by my maternal grandfather. This is not so improbable. My grandfather was a very kind man--some people, in fact, thought that it was his kindliness that made it difficult for him to run even a tiny grocery store at a profit--and it's easy to imagine his extending credit to people down on their luck. In fact, you might say that uncollectible debts from such people were the major part of his estate...
...perfectly possible that this one little boy grew up to make millions and to become a miser who never donated a penny to anything (except to the campaigns of politicians like Congressman Chris Cox of California) and to raise his own son on stories of the one kindly grocer who was never paid for the milk and the tomato soup. So why shouldn't the son, after a lonely but very comfortable life, leave instructions in the will for his lawyers to track down the descendants of that one kindly grocer and give them the entire estate...