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Selected Poems By C.K. Williams Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 290 pages, $22 Reading a book of poems by C.K. Williams can be agonizing. His sense of thwarted justice amounts to...

Not all that long ago, only 1992, the basketball world was Randy Ayers' oyster. Led by a resourceful star named Jimmy Jackson, Ayers' Ohio State team took Michigan's "Fab Five"...

The new maximum-security federal prison at Florence has begun receiving the nation's most dangerous inmates. But officials are determined not to let the southern Colorado penitentiary repeat the legacy of...

On the eve of the most controversial voting at the 89th NCAA convention, university presidents participated in a spirited debate Sunday that illustrates just how divided delegates are over academic-standards...

Houseplants have become an integral part of interior design. There are houseplants suited to every exposure. For windows facing north, south, east and west, gardeners can select from a host...

It isn't that people don't warn you, it's that they can only warn you. You know your name can swirl in trade rumors. You know a good friend can be...

Much to the chagrin of many fans, San Antonio Spurs forward Dennis Rodman is off the suspended list and turning in one standout performance after another. Standing out never as...

Betty Trum acknowledges she doesn't know much about investing. So when a stockbroker at her NationsBank branch office in St. Petersburg, Fla., advised her to take $25,000 out of certificates...

Business travelers who find life on the road stressful say that aspect of travel is something they "just have to live with," according to a recent nationwide survey by Budget...

In the scramble to modernize, Eastern Europeans are brushing up on their English, with some perverse results. Take, for example, the Czech travel agency that urges visitors: "Take one of...