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Moyers might well have drawn more telling responses from a group that ranges from well-established poets like Sandra McPherson, Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich to such lesser-known practitioners as Daisy Zamora, Sekou Sundiata and Coleman Barks. But by ignoring specifics--by avoiding the poet's daily business of weighing word against word--he finally divorces most of the poets from their poems. Ideally, when the poet sits down to write he or she is claiming a kinship, however collateral, with Dickinson and Donne, Chaucer and Virgil. What Moyers too often gives us is the poem as self-therapy...
Former President Jimmy Carterannounced that he has brokered a two-month ceasefire in one of the world's lesser-known hot wars, a bloody, 12-year conflict between Sudan's Islamic government and rebel fighters.Carteradded, surprisingly, that public health concerns motivated the two sides to compromise: "The primary purpose of this agreement is to permit the leaders and citizens of Sudan and international agencies to carry out a major effort to eradicate guinea worm, prevent river blindness and immunize children against polio and other diseases," Carter said in a statement. The cash-strapped Muslim fundamentalist government spends more than...
...drivers do," Miller says. Surely, driving around from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. must make for some interesting experiences. Dedicated investigative reporter that I am, I sacrificed part of my Thursday night to bring you the truth. I went into that building with a mission: to seek out the lesser-known stories of the shuttle service...
...lightness of touch than the tragic loves of his better-known operas. The duster House double-bill, put together by an all-student cast and production team, is full of talent and enthusiasm. Even if it misses some of Puccini's subtleties, it amply conveys the charm of two lesser-known gems of the operatic repertoire...
...lesser-known musical talents include singing and the ability to whistle one melodic line, hum another, and (sometimes) play a piano score at the same time.. a veritable one-man trio. "I didn't learn to whistle until about six years ago," he remembers. "Once I learned how to whistle to begin with, it wasn't that much harder [to hum at the same time]." Elkies explains that as a pianist, he was already accustomed to controlling several different musical lines at once...