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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...
...Eliot prize in 2005 for her collection of linked love poems, Rapture. She's also won the Dylan Thomas award, the Whitbread poetry prize, the Somerset Maugham award and the Forward prize...
Quincy: The people's house organized competitors into various teams, with The Professionals taking home the prize. According to one participant this game quickly devolved into what resembled a Western shoot-out—lots of shots fired with almost none hitting their targets. But then again, since when were Harvard students known for their marksmanship...
...such a ruthless kill, Brewer apologized and asked if he could buy the girl ice-cream. She declined and went back to the library. FlyBy is no dating expert but identity theft does not strike us as the best way to get a girl. But Brewer does get the prize for FlyBy's favorite kill...
...Harvard with intentions of becoming a physicist. Now with a substantial list of acting and directing credits to her name, not to mention the first student show on the Loeb Mainstage in 15 years, it might seem as though Videt—the 2009 recipient of the Luis Sudler Prize in the Arts—has traded her passion for physics for a new one. But this is hardly the case. While she admits “I was just never cut out to make it as a physicist,” Videt has found a unique way to combine...