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...quit his job as a probation officer and became a full-time poet. His output is marked by an impressive versatility; he has written for radio and TV, produced song lyrics for award-winning musical documentaries, and translated a gem of the medieval literary canon, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” into modern English verse. Primarily, though, he is a lyric poet, specializing in “lively, mysterious, revelatory” poems, according to English Professor James Simpson, who introduced Armitage at the Woodberry event.In recent years, though, Armitage has turned...
...appears to be merely explaining to them the judicial process involved in the Chevron suit. But at one point he is asked by the American, businessman Wayne Hansen, if Chevron is el culpable - the guilty party. Nuñez, off camera, answers, "Sí, señor" - "Yes, sir." Says Charles James, executive vice president of Chevron, which posted the videos on the Internet on Aug. 31: "No judge who has participated in meetings of the type shown on these tapes could possibly deliver a legitimate decision." (See a video of how fungi can help clean up the petro-contamination...
...today's postconflict Northern Ireland, Kennedy's political allegiances remain a source of controversy. There were outcries from Protestant politicians in March, for example, when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown nominated Kennedy to receive an honorary knighthood from the Queen. (Read "Why Some Brits Don't Want a Sir Ted Kennedy...
...winning his first of nine U.S. Senate elections. It is the story of a decent, but entirely human, fellow whose fame doesn't quite match the ambiguous facts of history. And there comes a point when the myth assumes a reality all its own. "This is the West, sir," says a newspaper editor. "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend...
...independent service working to our own laws--nobody else's.' SIR JOHN SCARLETT, chief of the British intelligence agency MI6, dismissing calls for an inquiry into allegations that the organization tortured terrorism suspects...