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    The President-Elect Selects A Poet

    In non Rick Warren news: Yale University Professor of African-American studies and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander has been selected to write and read a poem for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony on January 20.