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...Duffy takes over from the current incumbent Andrew Motion (who admitted he found writing about royal happenings "very difficult") and has already said she'll give the annual $8,500 salary away to the Poetry Society to fund a new prize for the best collection published each year. As for the "butt of sack" - the 600 bottles of sherry traditionally given to the laureate - Duffy has asked for delivery up front, after learning that Motion hasn't received his yet. (Read: "A Brief History Of The Poet Laureate...
...fact that she's the first woman to do the job would also add a fascination and a glamour - and a sense of rightness." -Current holder of the post, Andrew Motion (Financial Times...
...whom the Army did not seek death and who will be eligible for parole in 10 years. The day before the trial began, federal prosecutors asked the judge to have this line of argument barred from the court, saying it risked biasing the jury because, they wrote in their motion, of "our sense of indebtedness to the service and sacrifice of our fighting men and women." Green's trial is expected to last three to six weeks, and if a death penalty is handed down, an already notorious war crime may well become even more...
...smile never wavers and her hands are in constant motion as she explains her research on medieval China. Though the walls of her office on the second floor of the Harvard-Yenching Library are lined with all sorts of heavy volumes—in both Chinese and English—her demeanor is light and unpretentious...
...innocent musk, his smoothly muscled torso seemingly gleaming with - not sweat - dew. The camera not only loves the 21-year-old actor but laps him; it wants to wring the moisture from his socks and drink it. Few female stars of Hollywood's golden age received the luminous, slow-motion, soft-focus devotion Efron gets here. The idea is to stir the audience, and not just the young girls, to a collective rapturous sigh. (See pictures of Efron's career...