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...locate me a little bit, where I’m from, the subjects I write about,” he said of the poem. Many other poems Armitage chose to read last night drew on his childhood home in northern England. He said that he can see the area manifest itself through his work. “I respect and acknowledge the area there, and I can see it now...through the poems,” Armitage said. “Occasionally, people will describe me as a Northern writer. But if it describes what the poem is about, then...
...Murphy blurs the distinction between what Kennedy achieved on the gridiron and on the Senate floor, and perhaps he’s not unreasonable in doing so, as Kennedy’s personal development through success and failure as a Harvard football player was manifest in his approach to his political career...
...open sea, a helicopter approaches a cargo ship of Eastern European origin. Quietly, the chopper disgorges a team of elite commandos, arguably the best in the world, who quickly subdue the crew and remove weapons unlisted on the ship’s manifest. This may be familiar as the opening mission of a widely popular modern combat video game, featuring Britain’s elite Special Air Service. Yet this scene may have actually happened recently —with Israeli troops...
...parallels between the response at 9/11 and the response to Hurricane Katrina. The chaos of 9/11 has been ascribed in large degree to the fact that the nature of the attack was a surprise. We knew there was a terrorist threat; we didn't know it would become manifest in this particular way. What was different with Katrina was that it was an event that had been anticipated and planned for in the gulf region for decades. So whatever you can say about the response to Katrina, it was not a consequence of surprise. With Katrina, you had the same...
...Soauka, and a tour group of nine Australians and their local guide Steven Jaruba, a local businessman. By early on August 14, three days after the crash, authorities reported a 14th person may have been on the plane, a local mine worker who was not listed on the passenger manifest...