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The position of British poet laureate, made vacant last year by the death of Ted Hughes, has still not been filled but, as the Daily Telegraph of London reported Wednesday, Tony Harrison, one of the leading contenders, excluded himself as a candidate with a poem published this week:
This comes after suggestions of an indigenous boycott of the games were rejected, in part because several aboriginal athletes, such as track star Cathy Freeman, are medal contenders, and after the Olympic organizing committee "did a back flip" and decided to fly the indigenous flag at official venues.
4. "GE CEO Jack Welch announced that he will retire after the company's annual meeting in April 2001, meaning that all eyes will be focused on his succession . Early suggestions for ways of whittling down the list of contenders include: two weeks of Navy SEAL training (if you ring the bell, you're out); a bake-off using GE's cool new photo-light oven; and a gala tourney of Win Ben Stein's Money ."
It is a concept that does not easily lend itself to compromise, as the Republican presidential contenders are demonstrating.
All the papers bury their coverage of the New Hampshire debate among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination.