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...births and weddings, the title was one that few American poets rushed to adopt. "It's in the field of politics," scoffed Allen Ginsberg. With artists serving renewable eight-month terms, the U.S. "may be down to third-rate poets pretty quickly," quipped A.R. Ammons. "I don't think Robert Frost would have liked it," said the Atlantic's poetry editor of the man whose reading at John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inauguration symbolized--incorrectly--the position for many Americans. (Frost held an earlier title, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress...
...first appointee had no intention of writing odes to Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Robert Penn Warren said in 1986 that he "couldn't write to order" even if asked, and he spent his tenure overseeing the library's poetry collection. Subsequent laureates have used the position to broaden the reach of poetry in America. Joseph Brodsky championed poetry in public places; Robert Hass started an annual student competition; Billy Collins launched a website with a poem for every day of the school year. Ryan isn't yet sure what she's going to do but notes that she is constitutionally...
...Zimbabwe Rivals Agree to Talk After months of violence following a contested presidential election, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe met on July 21 and agreed to assign representatives to power-sharing negotiations. The meeting was a victory of sorts for South African President Thabo Mbeki, who had previously been criticized for his passive role as the conflict's designated mediator. Yet wary Western nations, suspicious of Mugabe's vocal and repeated vows to maintain power, nonetheless toughened sanctions against the President and many of his senior advisers...
...have been aided in his deception by friends or the Serbian government. But his ability to so completely transform himself--and so completely convince those who lived and worked alongside him--is more difficult to explain. In his study on the psychology of mass murder, The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton wrote, "No individual self is inherently evil, murderous or genocidal. Yet under certain conditions virtually any self is capable of becoming all of these." In Karadzic's case, the reverse was true. The warlord charged with ordering the massacre of more than 7,000 people in Srebrenica became...
Merkel posed for pictures with Obama before the two retreated for a private session at the Chancellory that lasted a little under an hour. Obama campaign strategist Robert Gibbs said in a statement that Obama's "warm and productive conversation" with Merkel touched on a wide range of foreign policy topics but included a particular focus on "the urgency of stopping Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons...