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...years after Plath's death, we have been given back the binder that was on her desk. Ariel: The Restored Edition (HarperCollins; 211 pages) prints the poems Plath chose for her book and in the order in which she gave them--the director's cut, as it were. It also includes a foreword by Frieda Hughes, the couple's daughter. Amazingly, before work began on the restored edition, Hughes, who is also a poet, had never read her mother's masterpiece. "Sometimes we have to wait until we're the right age for something," says Hughes, 44, who lives...
...CRAIG FERGUSON, best known to American audiences as The Drew Carey Show's insufferable boss Mr. Wick, takes the reins of CBS's Late Late Show in January, which another Craig--Kilborn in this case--dropped over the summer. (Easier to remember the name of the guy behind the desk, that way.) Ferguson won a bake-off with three other funny guys, much to his surprise. "I thought, There's no way they're going to let a Scottish guy do this show," he says. (Has he never seen Shrek?) We eagerly await seeing all those guests in kilts...
...cartoon on the cover of the book, “Today’s Random Medical News from the New England Journal of Panic-Inducing Gobbledygook” by Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman, shows a newscaster at his desk with three multicolored wheels-of-fortune at the top of the screen. After pressing a button on the desk, the newscaster prepares to report the following random result: COFFEE can cause DEPRESSION in TWINS...
Dell did not become a Rhodes Scholar by chaining herself to her desk for four years, although she has always been academically intense. Lindsay E. Crouse ’06, a cross-country teammate and good friend, remembers a particularly telling moment. “We were just on a run during finals period during my freshman year,” she said. “I was complaining how I had two to go. She said, ‘I know. It’s really hard. I have four to go and I’ve already taken...
...mask mounted on a wooden screen hangs over the desk of the associate managing editor. Its eyebrows are steeply arched over wrinkled, squinting eyes. The smile is not subtle or confined to the corners but wide open, and the lower jaw is loose and can be manipulated. The mask, a token of thanks from a group of Korean tourists after receiving a tour of the building earlier this year, laughs. If that mask is having such a good time, anyone should be able...