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...write a long, narrative, epic poem. I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what we're calling "embedded poems." Some of those - maybe about half - are poems that appeared in The Nation. The whole narrative poem is published for the first time in the book...
...When President-Elect Obama spoke at Chicago’s Grant Park, he asked all Americans to “join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years—block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.” If you walk down Western Ave in Allston, past some of Harvard’s vacant or under-utilized buildings, it is clear that Harvard owns a lot of property that needs some “block by block” rebuilding...
...That’s our captain,” Housman said. “He came in, provided everything we needed from him. He’s leading the nation in three-point field goal percentage. That’s what we need him for, and he also played good solid...
...rookie made 31 saves overall, but with BC nearly doubling Harvard in shots, 36-19, Hoyle’s efforts were not enough to keep the Crimson in the game against the Eagles, the No. 5 team in the nation in scoring offense with 3.67 goals per game...
...Thaksin, the ousted premier who many believe is still the real power behind the ruling party, has been convicted and sentenced to two years in jail for conflict of interest over a land deal. He fled the country in August, and has been nation-hopping since then. On Saturday, Thaksin gave an interview to a journalist in Dubai in which he demanded that antigovernment protesters respect the law. "If some people are above the law ... then everything is finished," Thaksin said. If everyone respects the law, he continued, the situation could end soon...