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Oil and Gold Prices Continue to Slide
Monet Meets the Colt .45 in Hartford
Storming the Campuses By BRAD STONE The historic rivalries of the Ivy League have reached the Internet in the form of an online computer game that is a riff on classic territorial-conquest board games, such as Risk.
At Harvard, Students’ Muslim Traditions Are a Topic of Debate By NEIL MacFARQUHAR The controversy focused on whether the call to prayer should ring out across Harvard Yard and whether the university should grant women separate gym hours.
'Even in layman's terms it is completely counterintuitive, but somehow it works'
--Associated Press
Rev. Wright was White House guest in '98
Clinton reportedly told assembled clerics he had 'repented' after Lewinsky scandal
--Politico
Ferraro resents being lumped with Wright
--Torrance Daily Breeze, California
What do Pennsylvanians think of Obama's speech?
--Politico
Kerry: Obama can bridge Islam gap 'because he's a black man'
--ABC News
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Ars Poetica: Poems about Poetry
"What a poem is / Is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful," writes Hayden Carruth. With National Poetry Month only two weeks away, discover the many ways poets have sought definitions of poetry and defined their craft. Read a new essay on the history of poems about poetry, complete with a selection of poems that explore and expand views on verse, including newly added work by C. D. Wright, Ruth Stone, Howard Nemerov, Marvin Bell, W. S. Merwin, and many others.
On the web at: www.poets.org/arspoetica
