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...This was a time when women were not considered capable of writing serious poetry,” Kumin says. “They were only considered capable of writing little domestic or sentimental poems.” But in the next two decades, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Kumin herself would turn that notion upside-down...
...swapping equity for massive amounts of debt. Some of these highly leveraged companies could find it difficult somewhere down the line." A few analysts think they see the kind of borrowing-and-buying frenzy that could cause a serious plunge in the next few years. Says Mason Sexton, president of Wall Street's Harmonic Research: "The sign is going to be the proverbial speculative fever that makes cab drivers rich...
Archeology concentrator Rachel Sexton ’00 was practicing excavation for her thesis when the mysterious bones were discovered in 1999. The bones seemed to have been sawed apart after death, so Sexton called in Lecturer on Anthropology Carole Mandryk to conduct further investigation. Together, the women found remains of arsenic, mercury, and lead in the soil around the bones...
Jack and Miles are ideal opposites. Miles is nerdy and needy, analyzing every sip of wine, fretting over every impulse, convinced that he's too insignificant a writer even to kill himself: "Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf--you can't commit suicide until you're published." Jack, whose fluorescent grin almost distracts from his fading good looks, still believes he has It. ("I get chicks lookin' at me all the time, all ages. Dudes too.") With a true actor's magnificent focus and minute attention span, he's so in the moment than he can convince himself of anything, including that...
...takes the form of poker or horse racing, and the cable TV debut of the World Poker Tour, the game took off again. "The games are classy affairs with megabucks at stake, and there are a lot of new people in the game," says World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton. "Poker is seen as a competition and a sport now, not as gambling per se." These days, the Golden Nugget, whose poker rooms shut down in 1989, is holding tournaments seven nights a week. One Nugget regular is Steve Kaufman, 58, a university professor and former rabbi from Cincinnati, Ohio...