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...Female poets have long been in the running for the post: As far back as 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered for the laureateship after Wordsworth's death, but it passed on to Tennyson instead. However, in choosing how to announce her new job Friday morning, Duffy made sure her snubbed predecessors weren't forgotten. The name of the BBC program on which she broke the historic news? Woman's Hour. (Read about America's busiest poet, Kay Ryan...
...efforts of Obama to calm the citizenry about (since, after all, there have only been about 110 cases of, and one - count it! - one death from in a nation of 300 million) are compromised by dire warnings issuing from carelessly flapping Biden lips...
...will turn its attention to whom Obama might nominate to replace him. Souter's reliably liberal stand on issues means that the President's choice won't change the balance of the court on any of the high-profile social issues it handles, like abortion, civil rights or the death penalty. But it does present the President with both political opportunities and challenges, as well as a test of what is thought to be his center-left judicial outlook...
...year-old grandfather bled to death only a few paces from his doorstep...
...daughters. There, Jose Luis continues to mourn his wife. He wants her passing to have meaning. "What I want is [a piece of official] paper that says that she had this flu. I just want to see it in writing. I want my daughters to know that even in death she helped others. They say she was the first case. [The Health Minister] says that because of her ... of her case, the whole thing was discovered. They say she was a heroine. That is what I want my daughters to know...