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...realigning 775 smaller facilities, to save nearly $49 billion over the next 20 years. But what's "striking" about the base-closing plan, says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the nonpartisan Lexington Institute think tank in Arlington, Va., is "the geographical migration of the military out of the Frost Belt and into the Sun Belt." Northern states such as Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey will lose more than 19,000 military and civilian jobs at the facilities on Rumsfeld's hit list, while three Southern states, Georgia, Alabama and Texas, will have a net gain of 16,237 jobs...
...Staff writer Alison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu...
...Pobiz,” short for “Poetry Business.” The writings from Kumin’s “Pobiz” period reflect a keen awareness of the natural world that have led her work frequently to be compared to that of Robert Frost, who likewise studied here. (Frost, who enrolled at Harvard in 1897, withdrew from the College before ever receiving...
...example, in “Up Country,” the anthology that won her the Pulitzer in 1973, Kumin considers the birches that define the New England landscape from the perspective of a mother—whereas Frost famously approaches the same natural features from the vantage-point of an adult man looking back toward his boyhood. Kumin writes...
...Just as Frost was appointed Library of Congress consultant in poetry in 1958, Kumin was named to the same position in 1981. Today, the writers who serve in that post receive the prestigious title “U.S. Poet Laureate...