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DIED. JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN, 94, poet and short-story writer; in Cockeysville, Md. With spare, precise language, her poems explored the anxieties of being human and led to her selection, in 1971, as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress--the position now called U.S. poet laureate...
...former lounge singer and TIME writer; to take over the Ann Landers advice column; in Chicago. Dickinson will pen "Ask Amy," the successor to Landers' Chicago Tribune column, which was once the most widely read newspaper column in the world. The new agony aunt is a distant relative of poet Emily Dickinson...
...large degree, Vajpayee's recommandeering of India's political agenda is testament to the shrewdness of the man now acknowledged as one of the country's canniest operators. Vajpayee has played up the image of himself as grandfatherly thinker and poet, and in India the idea of the wise elder, the guru, has a mystique and appeal that cuts across political lines. For Vajpayee, it enables a regal rise above India's noisy democracy. Last year, with his rightist rivals ascendant, Vajpayee more or less retired from public view. But after the fundamentalists reached their high-tide mark last December...
More than a crime writer or social dramatist, Simon is a poet of beautiful losers. He has an unfailing ear for dialogue (getting a hard-to-solve case is "catching a stone whodunit"), and he's abetted by the subtle performances of regulars like Sonja Sohn and Wendell Pierce. Even crooked union boss Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer) is more pitiable than loathsome--he's a dinosaur and knows it--and his underlings are the blue-collar counterpart to last season's no-hope drug soldiers, who are on the scene this year too. If The Wire depicts...
...side of the new Anne Dudley Bradstreet gate, a plaque was unveiled to immortalize the words of the female, Puritan poet: “I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners at which my heart rose...