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“No great problem is ever solved….”
I first heard of Steven Smale back in the '60s when he was a professor at Columbia. I was casually interested in mathematicians through my friendship with Bernie Berlowitz. In some ways Smale is…
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Natasha Trethewey to Succeed Phil Levine as Poet Laureate
<<<The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta.…
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Kate Daniels, Guest Blogger June 4-11
This week we welcome Kate Daniels as our guest blogger. Kate is the author of four books of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret, her most recent, and the editor of Muriel Rukeyser’s…
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A Scary Prediction — China: Better Dead than Red? [by DL]
Back in January 2008, when the media was fixated in Iowa, I predicted that Barack Obama would win the presidency and be re-elected. Stacey can confirm this prediction. Scarcely infallible, I picked Kerry to…
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Thinking of PVT Huy Robert Horowitz on the Anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1944)
My father landed on Omaha Beach and went on to fight in the Battle of the Bulge. Here he is in boot camp. — sdh
