By Tom Lasseter
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MOSCOW — Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev on Monday agreed to cut as many as a third of the nuclear warheads in their strategic arsenals, but acknowledged that disagreements linger about a proposed U.S. missile defense shield.
Obama and Medvedev stressed that the proposal marked a turn away from the post-Cold War lows of the past few years.
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From wikipedia:
Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 6, 1915–November 30, 1998) was an African-American poet and author born in Birmingham, Alabama. She wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her best-known poems is "For My People".
Her father Sigismund C. Walker was a Methodist minister and her mother was Marion Dozier Walker. They helped get her started in literature by teaching a lot of philosophy and poetry to her as a child.
Learn more about Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander, free from The Nation magazine.
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