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Pirates have plagued seafarers for millenniums. Homer and Cicero noted incidents involving ancient Greek and Roman mariners, and West Europeans weathered Viking onslaughts during the Middle Ages. In the 16th and 17th centuries, monarchs frustrated by Spain's dominance of the Caribbean commissioned privateers to harass the Spanish fleet--helping to usher in piracy's golden age, when swashbuckling marauders like Edward (Blackbeard) Teach roamed the sun-splashed islands, plundering gold and silver...
...July 17, Kay Ryan became the 16th U.S. poet Laureate, one of the most coveted positions in American letters. Yet when Senator Spark Matsunaga, himself an amateur poet, pushed Congress to create the post in 1985, the American literary community was appalled. With its roots in 17th century England, where the laureate still writes occasional verses marking royal births and weddings, the title was one that few American poets rushed to adopt. "It's in the field of politics," scoffed Allen Ginsberg. With artists serving renewable eight-month terms, the U.S. "may be down to third-rate poets pretty quickly...
When the Library of Congress announced Kay Ryan as its pick for 16th Poet Laureate Consultant last week, the poetry community went all atwitter. Mention the title "poet laureate" outside the poetry community, and you'll find it has an appeal that's, well, poetic. But even cognoscenti who can rattle off the rhyme scheme of a sonnet in their sleep might be hard pressed to answer the question: What exactly does the poet laureate...
...chance to cast my ballot for someone. Harold Freiman Berkeley Your article paints Cuomo as a man who is deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism. It attributes to the Governor a lifelong fealty to the ideals of St. Thomas More, the statesman-martyr under King Henry VIII in 16th century England. Cuomo's fealty, however, crumbles in a most crucial aspect. St. Thomas More put his faithfulness to Roman Catholic teaching ahead of his political career and even his life when he was martyred for not assenting to the King's divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn. Mario Cuomo...
Each year since Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seized power in 1969, Libya has celebrated the day that he expelled U.S. military personnel from Wheelus Air Base, outside Tripoli. It was widely assumed that Gaddafi would use last week's 16th anniversary of the occasion to make his first live public appearance since U.S. warplanes attacked Tripoli and Benghazi last April. Western reporters were invited to Tripoli and advised to expect a major speech. Gaddafi never turned up. An apathetic crowd of 2,000 Libyans who gathered in Tripoli instead heard a harangue, apparently videotaped earlier, that raised doubts about how much...