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...Literature in 1995 for what the Swedish Academy of Letters praised as "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He is the fourth Irish writer to have won the prize, joining the ranks of William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925) and Samuel Beckett (1969). He is one of the most popular poets of all time (his collections, particularly North, have outsold nearly all other poetic collections in recent memory) and the author of a collection of 18 books of poetry, prose and drama, some original work, some collaborative, some anthologies...
DIED. JOHN HOLLIMAN, 49, CNN's national correspondent; in a car crash; near Atlanta. Holliman was part of the original CNN reporting team and, together with Bernard Shaw and Peter Arnett, filed live from Baghdad during the 1991 allied bombing. He was scheduled to co-anchor with Walter Cronkite John Glenn's return to orbit next month...
Indeed, playing family-history detective takes time, patience and effort. Helen Shaw, 48, of Chicago started with only the family Bible and a grandfather's scrapbook. They led her to a quiet cemetery in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. "It turns out," she says, "that I'm related to about three-fourths of the people buried there." Now a professional genealogist, Shaw photocopied local census records and created a 500-page manuscript documenting the entwined relationships of the cemetery's roughly 2,500 people. Phyllis Heiss, 76, of Boca Raton, Fla., tracked her family back 15 generations across five centuries and estimates...
...fetched to think that every child in Dalton could grow up not just bilingual but familiar with both cultures," says Erwin Mitchell, a local attorney who helped recruit 17 teachers from the University of Monterrey in Mexico, where carpet mogul Bob Shaw had a contact. Dalton used public funds, of which there is a big supply, to fly the teachers here, put them up in apartments and buy them all memberships in a health club...
...enough of trail tours? The Black Heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston Common. This monument honors the first regiment of black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil War, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's portrayal, "Glory...