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...David Lehman, editor of the Best American Poetry series, describes her work as both "riddling and reader-friendly." And critics often note the wry, introspective, paradoxical quality of her poems. Ryan has said that her poems "surf the edge of sensory deprivation." Yet she also seeks to unnerve the reader...
...next phase of the trip - to Israel and the Palestinian territories - may well be the most perilous politically for Obama, as he seeks to strike the perfect note in that diplomatically delicate part of the world. While there, Obama will meet with both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as well as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu. His every word will be parsed and closely scrutinized, not only in the region but also at home in the U.S., especially by American Jews, some of whom have expressed reservations...
Friends also note that ''there is a great deal of sharing at home'' between Oakley and his wife Phyllis, now the second ranking State Department official for refugee programs. When dinner's over, says Murphy, ''he's the fastest washer-upper in the business.'' After last week, it was clear that distinction applies to more than just dirty dishes...
...commander Raoul Cedras drafted a ''letter of reconciliation'' to be presented to the U.S. What was offered, TIME has learned, contravened the key elements of the Governors Island accord signed in July -- the agreement that called for Cedras and Police Chief Michel Francois to resign. Aristide could return, the note proposed, but Cedras and Francois would remain in their posts, responsible only to an ''independent'' Prime Minister they had every intention of controlling. Aristide, it was clear, would be a political cripple. The letter was never sent. On Friday afternoon, when U.S. envoy Lawrence Pezzullo met with Cedras, the Haitians...
...sweet tone that could cut through the thickest arrangements and roughest riffs. ''I just don't think I ever lost my enthusiasm for music,'' he said, but he did not have to put it into words. His real voice was his clarinet, which proclaimed his unmistakable passion with every note it sang, sang, sang...