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...POETRY OF RAY DIPALMA. A New Yorker, Ray Dipalma has published over thirty collections of poetry and visual art. Critics have variously associated his delicate lyricism with Wallace Stevens, the Language movement and Dada. Noted volumes of poetry include Letters, Provocations, and Motion of the Cypher. Thursday, April 10, 5:30 p.m. Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library. Free and open to the public...
...ostensibly futile Summers-provoking campaign in the pages of the magazine. It seemed very unlikely that the president of the world’s most prestigious university, a former Cabinet member, a man profiled by the likes of “60 Minutes” and The New Yorker, would pay heed to a semi-weekly barrage of juvenile insults (“You’ll be begging for hippies to take over your office when we’re done with you!”) and insulting juvenilia (see illustration of Summers, paunch out, barraged by tennis balls...
Excerpted in the New Yorker three months before it was published as a book, biologist Rachel Carson's eloquent, rigorous attack on the overuse of DDT and other pesticides--she called them "elixirs of death"--had already upset the chemical industry. Velsicol, maker of two top bug killers, threatened to sue the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, which stood firm but asked a toxicologist to recheck Carson's facts before it shipped Silent Spring to bookstores...
...their WMDs? What's their support of terrorism?" When senior members of the intelligence community answered that they had little new information on Iraq--no smoking guns on WMDs or terrorism--the message would come back: "Try harder. Need to know more." In an interview with the New Yorker in May 2001, Cheney in two sentences linked North Korea, Iran and Iraq--the three countries that were later immortalized as the "axis of evil"--as threats to American security. Cheney still didn't buy into the whole neoconservative analysis. His concern was the national security of the U.S., not some...
...basketball history on Feb. 7 against Brown and earned Second Team All-Ivy honors this season. The next step for Tubridy is to become more aggressive in big games. Tubridy pulled down eight rebounds against the Wildcats but did not get to the foul line. Though the New Yorker doesn’t mind hanging around the perimeter—she attempted a team-leading 110 three-pointers on the season, hitting 42 of them—if Tubridy can post-up on smaller defenders and draw fouls, she can add another dimension to her game...