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...mind reader. On Nov. 26, President George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore were all smiles before meeting privately for the first time in seven years. Gore, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, was at the White House for the traditional presidential photo op with Nobel recipients...
...Singapore's censors when they threatened to pull National Arts Council funding from his second volume due to the gay content of some poems. But he learned to cope with the restrictions, and they haven't prevented him from attaining mainstream acceptance, represented by his winning the Singapore Literary Prize in 2006. If he's proud, Wong doesn't show it. Self-deprecating and mirthful, he describes himself as lazy, living off his partner's patience and generosity. Though he cites the succinct, confessional styles of American poets Sharon Olds and Raymond Carver as his most direct influences, he feels...
Vendler began by joking that, unsure what to focus on during her talk, she asked fellow English professor—and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet—Jorie Graham for advice...
...supplies political, diplomatic, financial and military support. In 1996, Hamas launched its first major wave of suicide bombings in Israel. At the same time, the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hizballah escalated attacks on Israel. The violence helped defeat then Prime Minister Shimon Peres, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in the Oslo Accords, giving victory to hard-liner Benjamin Netanyhu, a staunch opponent, like Iran and Hamas, of that peace deal...
...Bush administration’s abuse of signing statements has corroded the checks and balances of our government by quietly expanding the power of the executive branch. It took a Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé by Charles C. Savage ’98 in The Boston Globe to unearth that Bush had claimed the authority to ignore more than 750 laws enacted between 2001 and 2006—laws regulating everything from affirmative action to torture...