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...Academy is sometimes accused of political correctness, of paying undue attention to geopolitical and ethnic considerations. So in one respect, last week's award to poet Derek Walcott was unsurprising. Of mixed ancestry (African, Dutch, English), Walcott was born 62 years ago on the tiny Windward Island of St. Lucia in what was then the British West Indies. A native Caribbean writer had never before won a Nobel Prize...
Both of his parents were schoolteachers, although his father died when Walcott was only one, and the house in St. Lucia that he, his twin brother and older sister grew up in was filled with books. But the allure of the English language, and of the English poetry recited aloud in his classrooms, came tempered with a sense of exclusion from white British culture, the resentment felt by a subject of an alien, occupying power. In one of his early poems, he pondered his faraway African heritage and asked...
...author had never won the Nobel Prize in Literature -- until last week, when the Swedish Academy bestowed the $1.2 million laurel on poet Derek Walcott. The choice had some of the earmarks of political correctness: of mixed ancestry (African, Dutch, English), Walcott was born 62 years ago on St. Lucia in what was then the British West Indies...
...favorite thing Trevor does is when he starts skating pretty slow and then smashes into the curb and uses the momentum from the crash to do a front flip and lands back where he was," says a wide-eyed Aurora Lucia, 11, who often sees the team practicing where she skates...
...Lucia and Maria Lopes, both of Cambridge, were in the car hit by McGurn's bus, authorities said. They were taken to Cambridge City Hospital, where they were treated and released, Ball said...