The situation is absolutely dramatic, it's reaching nightmare proportions.

These attacks have continued despite the extensive...efforts made by KFOR and the United Nations in general to protect these people.

Cherish your wilderness.

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.