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...candidate for the prestigious position ten years ago, but narrowly missed out due to, observers believe, concerns over her lesbian relationship with fellow Scottish poet Jackie Kay. Indeed, there were also suggestions that former Prime Minister Tony Blair thought her sexuality may not play well in Middle England - a notion that would surely amuse Duffy, considering one of her best known works is titled Poet for our Times...
...exhibition, which runs through Aug. 16, marks the centenary of Bacon's birth in 1909 in Dublin. His father, a truculent British army officer turned horse trainer, shuttled the family for years between Ireland and England. But by the age of 16, Bacon was in London, and living on his own with a small allowance from his mother and the assistance of various older men. Eventually he drifted into a career as an interior decorator while trying to find his way as a painter. But it wasn't until the 1940s that he arrived at the vocabulary of tortured forms...
Local media reported earlier this month that The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe, its erstwhile New England jewel whose once-bumper profits have morphed into massive losses. It’s easy to see why Times executives are fed up—losses at The Globe this year are projected at $85 million, a heavy burden that virtually no media company can bear in today’s economic environment...
Giribet’s work has taken him everywhere from New England to Australia, Sri Lanka, and Catalonia. In each location, he looks for specimens and uses his findings to infer the evolutionary history of families and phylums. “We have two main projects right now,” says Giribet. “In one we’re looking into more details of how the families and phylums relate to each other, and in the other we’re looking into the big relationship between all the major lineages...
...Crimson women finished second over the weekend at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s Championship in Burlington, Vt., an event co-hosted by the University of Vermont and Dartmouth...