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...position existed from 1937 until 1985 under the title Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Past "consultants" include Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. In 1986, Robert Penn Warren was named the first official Poet Laureate Consultant. Although composing poems for state occasions has never been a requirement of the job, Howard Nemerov wrote a poem in 1989 to mark the 200th anniversary of the first meeting of Congress, and Rita Dove composed a poem when the Statue of Freedom was restored to the dome of the Capitol Building...
...Although she is being touted as an outsider in comparison to more high-profile choices of the past, such as W.S. Merwin and Robert Pinsky, she is in fact a well-established poet. It took 10 years for her to get her poems published in "good literary magazines," she recalls, but she has since won nearly every prestigious poetry award, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which carries a $100,000 purse, both in 2004. She has kept herself at a remove from the poetry community and has happily taught remedial English at the College...
...read this official speech, I will look stupid," says an ICC official who was at the meeting. And then, to everyone's surprise, South Africa, which up until then under the direction of President Thabo Mbeki had accommodated Khartoum (much as they are accommodating Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe today), criticized Sudan and the Security Council's acquiescence to Khartoum. Panama and Croatia joined in. The exuberant speeches caught people short...
...turn the attack on those who are in control of the investigation. At the present time, the medical profession occupies the uncomfortable seat of being held responsible for all medical discipline without authority over the process. The state giveth the license, and only the state can taketh it away. Robert C. Coe, M.D., Chairman Medical Disciplinary Board State of Washington Seattle Though the medical profession may have been derelict in its housekeeping duties, the inevitable improvement should not come through governmentally related professional-review organizations. The change for the better is already occurring from inside the profession with the appearance...
...investigation would be shelved, owing, a statement from his office said, to a "lack of evidence that any crime was committed by the persons placed under formal investigation." Comfort, then, for the McCanns - named by Portuguese police as official suspects in the case last fall - as well as for Robert Murat, the Portuguese-based Briton named as a suspect almost immediately after Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007. The three, who strenuously denied any involvement, are now cleared of suspicion. "We welcome the news today," Kate McCann said Monday in a brief statement to reporters near the couple's central...