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...Rockford Peaches, portrayed in the 1992 film A League of Their Own. NAMED. DR. ROWAN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, 52, well known academic theologian who was previously Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbichop of Wales, and who became Oxford's youngest professor at age 36, as Archbishop of Canterbury; in London. A poet and prolific author, the most recent of Williams' books is Writing in the Dust: After September 11th. (Williams was two blocks away from the twin towers on Sept. 11.) He succeeds Dr. George Carey, who retires at the end of October after eleven and a half years as Archbishop...
...soldier's attitude toward politics springs from his training at the academy. All cadets attend lectures on governance. Arts majors take a political-science course studying Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Indian strategist Chanakya, Arab historian Ibn Khaldun and Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal. But the average soldier learns more in the mess hall and the boxing ring than from this tutoring in political theory. "Phhh," sneers Major General Hamid Rab Nawaz, the academy's commandant. "I never studied political science myself...
...Winners ANNA NICOLE SMITH Buxom widow to star in her own reality TV show. It's like Survivor, except the contestants are all geriatric millionaires CINTIO VITIER Cuban poet wins prestigious Mexican prize for literature. He's a scholar, a humanist-and still far less famous than Anna Nicole Smith JON STEWART Comic extends his news satire program The Daily Show to CNN International. Early word has Gallagher pegged for Kabul bureau chief Losers WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA Nelson's ex-wife in court for fraud. All this is just Winnie's way to make sure that Halle Berry plays...
...Born in 1895, Larry claimed to be descended from the German-Jewish poet Harry Heine, the student of Hegel who converted to Protestantism and changed his name to Christian (!) Johann Heinrich Heine. His most famous poem, "Lorelay," set to music by Friedrich Silcher, has some of the melancholia (if not the elfin wit) that marked many Hart lyrics: "I do not know what haunts me,/ What saddened my mind all day;/ An age-old tale confounds me,/ A spell I cannot allay." And a quatrain Heine wrote for his wife Therese - "You're lovely as a flower,/ So pure...
...junior high yearbook I had a quote from a Spanish poet my sister had turned me on to, Juan Ram?n Jim?nez. It went like this: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." I chose it both because it expressed my contempt for my structured surroundings ? la the classroom and because, not being some dopey quote from a rock group, I thought it marked me as literary. I was a member of the Chess Club and Chem Club and burned everything I tried to make in Mrs. Delminico's home ec class. My favorite teacher...