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...Williams consistently reveals perceptions of the world unique to his own alert senses. In “Teachers,” the poet imagines a schoolroom at night, after both students and teachers have returned home: “Come dusk, the classrooms emptied, / the book shut tight, those forsaken treasures / of knowledge must batter the fading blackboards / and swarm the silent, sleeping halls, / like shades of lives never to be lived.” It seems here that Williams is wondering whether his own work will eventually rest unheard and unread in closed books and dark classrooms...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pulitzer-Winning Poet Williams Channels Voices from the Canon | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...undulating hills and thick vegetation of Dandakaranya Forest - nearly 50,000 sq km of jungle straddling parts of central-Indian states Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra and the southern state of Andhra Pradesh - have for decades been a forsaken, off-the-map region frequented only by corporate India looking to make a killing from the iron-ore reserves of the land. Indeed, for close to 10 years now, the area has remained off limits for the Indian government and its agencies, including the police and military. It is one of the few pockets of India that has not been topographically surveyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre Prompts Debate Over India's Maoist War | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...ever quite do its soothing driving montages justice. This certainly speaks against the film, but it should be noted that the aforementioned montages are truly excellent, with Eef Barzelay’s thoughtful soundtrack adding color to beautifully serene, eerie shots of the protagonists barreling along forsaken southern roads in a faded blue convertible. These scenes provide the viewer with brief respites from the occasionally awkward tension of the film’s plot, which focuses on three loners who end up in the same car on a trip through Louisiana. Despite this awkwardness, the tension usually feels genuine, highlighting...

Author: By Parker A. Lawrence, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Yellow Handkerchief | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...have yet to come up with an explanation for this phenomenon, and there is currently no “Social Analysis” core offering devoted to the subject (although you never know with “GenEd”). Regardless, the question still remains: why are these god-forsaken leggings so popular among members of the male gender, even among the bigger specimens...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Death to Skinny Jeans | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...promotion of homosexuality" in schools, an act that was repealed only after the Labour Party came into power in 1997. Adrian Rogers, a Conservative who ran unsuccessfully in that year's election against an openly gay Labour candidate, declared homosexuality to be a "sterile, disease-ridden and God-forsaken occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nasty No More? Britain's Tories Reach Out to Gays | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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