Charles Williams thought of himself primarily as a poet; he published seven volumes of poetry between 1912 and 1944. He also wrote seven novels and fifteen plays. During his lifetime, however, his mos...
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The headstone of Charles Walter Stansby Williams has the single word "Poet" at its center--with "UNDER THE MERCY" inscribed at the foot. Williams thought his poetry most important, and indeed Taliessi...
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Charles Williams is in many ways a paradox: a working-class man who lectured on John Milton at Oxford University; a devoted Christian whose novels explore blasphemies and black magic; an eloquent phil...
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Former boxing champion Bobby Czyz Jr. is recovering from injuries sustained in a fiery car crash more than a month ago.The 45-year-old Czyz was pulled unconscious from the back seat of a burning Me...
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An appeals court ordered a 73-year-old surgeon to stand trial in the fatal poisoning of his wife 39 years ago, ruling that the passage of time has not hindered his chance for fair treatment.A three...
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Jim ClarkMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ Former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark, whose violent confrontations with voting rights marchers in Selma shocked the nation in 1965 and gave momentum to the civil ...
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South Africa's national police commissioner, who faces charges of corruption and trying to protect a convicted drug smuggler, has gone on extended leave, the president said Saturday.The National Pr...
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The opening of a mammoth, $600 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which had been planned for last month, has now been delayed well into next year, U.S. officials said Thursday. The Vatican-sized comp...
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The president of the American Staffing Association was in town recently, and in a charming Tennessee accent, he scolded the profession. “The problem is we don’t act like a $69 billion i...
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President Bush on Friday nominated the U.S. ambassador to Russia, William Burns, for the State Department's third-highest job and plans to put him in charge of the administration's efforts to conta...
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President Bush moved quickly Friday to fill a key diplomatic post with responsibility for Iran policy, nominating the American ambassador to Russia for the job immediately after his predecessor's r...
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As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand in twice as many pardons and commutations as his three predecessors combined.The case he's asked about most concerns the parole of a castrated rapi...
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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an environmentalist.When she died July 11 at...
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Charles (Walter Stansby) Williams
Former champ Bobby Czyz Jr. hospitalized
