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Buell said Simpson’s recruitment completed a reconstruction of the department’s offerings in medievalism after the retirement of former Gurney Professor of English Literature Derek A. Pearsall and former Higginson Professor of English Larry D. Benson in the late 1990s...
...report is by Professor of Law Christopher F. Edley Jr., co-director of the Civil Rights Project, Professor Philip Klinkner of Hamilton College and research assistants Jocelyn Benson and Vesla Weaver...
...impression that such an official sounding regulation was little more than ceremonial. Indeed, the spirited crowd looked to number well over 200 as the Kickovers, one of Boston’s up-and-coming pop-punk bands, put on a frenetic and energetic show. Although ostensibly opening for Brenden Benson and the Well Fed Boys (who gained prominence recently from their tour in support of the White Stripes), the Kickovers have attracted enough attention in their hometown to gain a sizable audience of their own—and with good reason...
DIED. MILDRED BENSON, 96, original author of the bestselling Nancy Drew mystery novels, written under the pen name Carolyn Keene; in Toledo, Ohio. Benson set the series' tone, offering girls a heroine sleuth with brains, courage and a cute boyfriend. Her editor later claimed authorship of the books--saying she had outlined the plots and heavily edited the manuscripts--thus creating another mystery. But Benson was not irked. "I'm so sick of Nancy Drew," she once said, "I could vomit...
...DIED. MILDRED WIRT BENSON, 96, creator of the eponymous teenage sleuth of the Nancy Drew series, penned under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene; in Toledo, Ohio. Benson spent 58 years as a news-paperwoman and wrote more than 130 books, though none reached the heights of popularity achieved by the Drew series. Benson wrote 23 of the first 30 Drew stories, with the rest by hired writers. DIED. HANSIE CRONJE, 32, former captain of South Africa's cricket team who was banned from the game for life in 2000 for his role in a match-fixing scandal, in a plane crash...