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Play-Ins and Short-Lists

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

• TITLE: "Play-Ins and Short-Lists" Alcorn State and Siena played a game last night to determine which of them would get into the official 64-team NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

• "... Nuclear Posture Review ..." Here is the story from last Saturday's LA Times

• "... Alfred Lord Tennyson ..." This famous quote is from a most unfamous poem: In Memoriam A.H.H. which was written in 1850. This, from the University of Toronto website:

  First published anonymously in the volume with this title in 1850, though the 131 sections or separate poems that compose it were written and rewritten from 1833 to the time of publication. Two of the 131 sections were added in later editions: LIX in 1851, and XXXIX in 1872. The poem is in memory of Tennyson's friend Arthur Henry Hallam, son of the eminent historian. Hallam was engaged to marry Tennyson's sister Emily, when he died suddenly of a stroke in Vienna on September 15, 1833, at the age of twenty-two.

  Although written without any plan at first, the parts of the poem were finally arranged in a pattern to cover the period of about three years following Hallam's death. Tennyson himself insisted that it is "a poem, not a biography.
  Notes by J. D. Robins

  

• "... Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert ..." Just showing off here. William and Arthur are the first names of the famous operetta duo of Gilbert and Sullivan. "I Have a Little List" is a song from "The Mikado. It ends with the chorus singing:

  You may put 'em on the list--you may put 'em on the list;
  And they'll none of 'em be missed--they'll none of 'em be missed!

  
  
                
                      World War II Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  Every day of my life;
  Gonna let my little light shine.

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