Obviously Joe Warren did a good job of keeping Booker hitters off-balance. That was key. He's done a real nice job the last two outings.
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In many ways Booker is the opposite of James. He's a new, professional breed of urban manager.
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
The strength of the year's competition can be measured by the fact that three good books by previous Man Booker winners were finally not selected.
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
If I get that award, that's good, but I'm trying to get my team ready to make that run come state playoff time, ... I figure anybody can get it. It depends on how everybody plays. I think about getting it, but it's going to be a tough fight. There are other good players out there. Andre Stephens is my homeboy and there's David Booker, too. It's going to be tough getting it.
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
A lot of people today look at Booker T. Washington as a Uncle Tom as a sell out to his community. That business tradition that you see celebrated today and BET and any number of successful black enterprises, it starts off with Booker T. Washington.
I think we have two really good receivers. We have Chris Chambers, who went to the Pro Bowl, and Marty Booker, one of the leaders in yards per catch. If we could find someone who would complement those guys, that would certainly be something that would be a secondary priority on offense if we had the opportunity to do it.
We showed so much character this tournament, and it'll help even more later in the season. Rallying back Friday night (for a 49-48 victory over Booker T. Washington) and then coming back like this tonight will help us in the district.
This is a kid who has great confidence in his ability and is a tough-nosed player. He is a mentally tough kid. In the state finals when Allen was a senior at Booker T. Washington High School, his team was down by 10 points. Andre had four steals, about 12 points, and won the game. We hoped he could do that for us and he did that today.
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
Well, yeah, I mean I always wanted to be a writer eventually, but I wasn't ever really thinking like in terms of this young. I mean I always fantasized about when I'm 30, I'll go become a British citizen and win the Man Booker award. That's still my big goal.
DUBLIN - Not everyone was thrilled by the decision last month to give the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most influential literary award, to The Sea ... Never Let Me Go.
Relatives said Booker made violent threats in the past, but we're not sure if they involved the son.
The Booker elicits a massive amount of press coverage in Britain - one paper devoted two entire pages of its news section to analysis of the long list, including a full-page chart with the covers of all the books, descriptions of them and predictions of how they will do in the competition. Literature doesn't get nearly as much attention in the United States, but when I returned from vacation, the Associated Press was running a story about the year in books that presented a very different view from the British one. I think everyone is still waiting for the book that everyone greets as the big literary book, ... People thought it would be a strong year for fiction, but it hasn't turned out that way.