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...surprising number are canonical poets: Dryden, Johnson, Cowper, Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, among others. The eclipse of their anti-slavery writings is hard to understand, especially because some, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote against slavery from their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite...
...anonymous English lady thoughtfully composed songs for plantation slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...
Nobody in this military town talks about post-Iraq rebuilding plans. No one skims over the fighting and dying and winning of a war as if they were instructions on a waffle iron. It's real here, even for experts in faking it, like exotic dancer Charlotte Johnson. Marines keep handing her their dog tags before they go. "I think they want someone waiting for them," she says. "I always tell them, 'I'll give them back to you when you get home.' But I know not all of them will...
...Senate are ginning up for hearings into the disaster. President Bush, a Texan who has reason to wish the home-state space program well, declared his support for NASA last week, but space-agency employees remain worried. "It's really pretty somber here," says a NASA contractor at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "People are worried about layoffs, like after Challenger." In New Orleans, the work force at the Lockheed Martin plant that applies the foam to the shuttles' external tanks had already fallen from 4,800 before the Challenger explosion to 2,000 now. There's concern that...
...last time we had an arrogant, know-it-all Secretary of Defense was in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, when Robert McNamara undertook the job of reorganizing the armed services. In the process, he micromanaged the country's military affairs, including the war in Vietnam, which led to the deaths of 58,000 Americans and the wounding of thousands more. How many U.S. servicepeople will die or return home with mangled bodies, and how many Iraqis will be killed, because of Rumsfeld's micromanagement of the war on Iraq? JOHN J. CONNELL San Marino, Calif...