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...thought "long and hard" before accepting the high-profile job, and gave the final say to her 13-year-old daughter. Her response? "She said, 'Yes mummy, there's never been a woman.'" Now Duffy, who once said "no self-respecting poet" should have to write about royal weddings (she was referring to the 1999 union between Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones) will be expected to do exactly that, in a role that requires her to write poems for royal events, funerals and various state occasions...
...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...
...investors already wounded by the global economic crash, news of a potential pandemic came as a further blow. "As if we didn't have enough to contend with," strategists at the Royal Bank of Scotland wrote in a note to clients Monday, "it's just what we need now, a flu pandemic in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression." Amid the sell-off, travel industry stocks fell sharpest. Shares in Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, tumbled by more than 12% before recovering slightly. Those of rival British Airways pulled back from similar lows, trading...
...Trouble had been brewing for months in Kathmandu over the most controversial goal of the peace accord: integrating the 19,000 former guerrillas into the Nepal army and, more important, into society. During the Maoists' decade-long insurgency, the former King's Royal Nepalese Army was called upon to tackle the Maoist guerrillas, and the two forces have been stridently inimical to each other ever since. "The fact is, the Nepal army today is the only significant opposition to the Maoist takeover of Nepal," says retired Major General Dipankar Banerjee, director of the New Delhi-based Institute of Peace...
...Wildest Dreams (1991) A group of friends gather regularly to play a Dungeons and Dragons-style roleplaying game, which gradually takes over their lives. One of Ayckbourn's darkest plays - one character regresses to infancy before our eyes - unjustly neglected since its 1993 London premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company...