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...poet's salary, of course, so Burns took a job as a tax inspector while still writing - and farming - on the side. He switched from poems to songs, and produced a number of tunes still famous today: "A Man's a Man for A' That," "A Red, Red Rose," and of course the New Year's Eve jingle about old acquaintances. Unfortunately, Burns had a weak heart, and strenuous requirements of a farmer's life took their toll. He died in 1796 - on the very day that his wife gave birth to his last child. Poets are dramatic like that...
...Rose B. Styron—a poet, journalist, and activist who will be a resident fellow—said she was both excited and nervous to be the first poet fellow. Her study group will focus on the interaction of the artist with the political sphere...
...Apple's Steve Jobs: "At one point, [EMI's top new-media exec Ted] Cohen remembers John Rose, then an EMI vice president, writing demographic sales statistics on a thirty-foot-long whiteboard in an Apple conference room. Afterward, Jobs stood up, walked to the whiteboard, which was entirely empty save for the one square foot where Rose had scribbled, and erased it completely. Rose was undeterred by this blatant power maneuver. 'John, God bless him, erased what Steve Jobs wrote and wrote something else over that,' Cohen recalls. 'They were erasing each other's words for about ten minutes...
...Appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Muskie rose to become Secretary of State in 1980, and won election to a full term in 1982. Became the Senate majority leader in 1988 with a staggering 81% of the vote. Occupied the role until...
...December the Arab moderates initially backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, while the resisters supported Fatah's bitter rivals, Hamas. Egypt and Saudi Arabia criticized Hamas for triggering the conflict by refusing to extend a six-month cease-fire. But as the death toll climbed and anger rose on the streets of Arab capitals, Saudi Arabia fell silent and Egypt scrambled to find a diplomatic solution...