Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Does the World Cup have a newfound appeal in the US?

Who says Americans are not interested in soccer? Today all the televisions in the cafeteria were tuned to the World Cup. And there was yelling. This almost beat the time the TV in the reception area, normally on CNN, had been changed to a soap opera.

Can a book dealer trade a watercolor drawing by Maurice Sendak for an apartment?

The nation's 14th poet laureate is named: Donald Hall, a writer whose "deceptively simple language builds on images of the New England landscape." Besides poetry, Hall has written books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore.

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