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...Library.Armitage’s profile has been steadily rising over the past 15 years since he quit his job as a probation officer and became a full-time poet. His output is marked by an impressive versatility; he has written for radio and TV, produced song lyrics for award-winning musical documentaries, and translated a gem of the medieval literary canon, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” into modern English verse. Primarily, though, he is a lyric poet, specializing in “lively, mysterious, revelatory” poems, according to English Professor...
...Bruce Willis the best leading man of his generation never to have been nominated for an Academy Award? Willis's name doesn't come up much at Oscar time, and it's not as if he shows any signs of caring about industry recognition. Maybe people in Hollywood think of him as just another tough guy, wise-ass and cocksure, and figure that star acting is something that lucky people are born with and get well paid for. But think of some signal films of the past decade or so: Pulp Fiction, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense...
Matt Hubbard ’00 took home an Emmy for Best Writing for his work on the hit comedy series 30 Rock on Sunday night. His episode, “Reunion,” beat out three other episodes of 30 Rock to win the award on a night in which the show was nominated for awards 22 times. Kentaro Fujita ’00, who was Hubbard’s freshman year roommate in Thayer and is now a professor at the Ohio State University, said that he was happy to hear the news but not surprised...
After Michael Dougherty, the Bears’ previous quarterback and semifinalist for the Draddy Award (which Peyton Manning won in college), Newhall-Caballero is fairly untested but connected with Farnham for 121 yards on 12 catches in the team’s opening loss to Stony Brook...
...John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow yesterday. Professor of Applied Mathematics Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter J. Huybers, and Rebecca D. Onie ’98-’97, co-founder and CEO of Project HEALTH will be awarded a $500,000 grant, which can be used for any purpose. “The award is an extraordinary opportunity: it gives us a forum to talk about [public health] at time when the health care debate is really heating up,” said Onie, who founded Project HEALTH with Chief...