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Just ask Billy Collins, who served from 2001 to 2003. He says one of his predecessors told him that being poet laureate means you basically spend a year explaining what the poet laureate is. "In my case," Collins says, "that meant explaining that it is not a presidential appointment, which...
"A lot of these parameters that are bandied about in the alternative-music community are ways of criticizing people," says Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan. "And again, it goes back to high school. You know, I don't like the clothes that you wear. That just becomes what alternative music...
He made his way to New York, where he was soon in demand as a sideman, earning up to $400 a week even as the Depression got under way. In 1933, he met John Hammond, a descendant of Commodore Vanderbilt's, who backed up his love for jazz with a...
CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUNDS 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Party Unity Patriotism and Leadership Grass-Roots Support Foreign Policy ACTION Barack Obama holds a so-happy-together event with Hillary Clinton and snags a $4,600 contribution from the former First...
Chemistry graduate student Billy Au voiced a similar sentiment.