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...only took 341 years but, finally, Britain has a female Poet Laureate. Carol Ann Duffy will hold the 10-year post, following in the formidable footsteps of the likes of William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes. Glasgow-born Duffy, 53, said she had 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...
...think he ended up going to Yale.”The Admissions Office, where 29,112 hopeful students sent their painstakingly crafted essays, letters, and applications to be reviewed this year, is the most exclusive in the country. Behind this machine are 70 people—from Dean William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 to recent alumni to current Harvard students—who together determine the fate of each applicant, with only 7 percent receiving the coveted acceptance letter earlier this month.THROUGH THE MACHINE Once students click “send” on their computers or drop...
...History Trygve V. R. Throntveit ’01, a St. Paul, Minn. native, arrived on Harvard’s campus for his undergraduate education. Young, eager, and motivated, Throntveit pursued a History and Literature degree. Soon, he was turning the heads of professors with his ideas on William James’s pragmatism and its effects on American politics, and won the Ralph Waldo Emerson prize in his junior year...
...Americans want our borders secured now more than ever," declared William Gheen, head of Americans for Legal Immigration. The North Carolina-based group is calling on the Obama Administration to shut down the southern border. "This latest in a series of health threats emanating from Mexico speaks loudly for border security, and the government's failure to respond accordingly should be a wake-up call for all Americans," Gheen said in a statement posted on the group's website. (See pictures of the Great Wall of America...
...which has had a hard time scoring points against the popular President, would like nothing better than for the Dems to overreach in their pursuit of Bush staffers. "Now that the door's open, I say, bring it on, let's have a big national debate on this," William Kristol, a conservative pundit, said on Fox News Sunday. "Let's have Dick Cheney debate anyone the left wants to produce about whether we were responsible, about whether this was a dark chapter in our history, something that we should be ashamed of or whether the U.S. government behaved...