Smith has one of the most successful coaching trees in the world of basketball -- his roster of ex-players and assistants includes current UNC coach Roy Williams and Larry Brown of the Charlotte Bobcats. Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun scowls on the sideline during the 2008 Big East Tournament.
Not Emily Dickinson. Her poems are full of weird, sharp, crazy images. They are bursting at the seams with emotion, all about death, madness, passion, and the weird things that go on in our minds. They are smart and often funny in a dark, slightly twisted way. Take I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died, for example. A lot of writers in Dickinsonâs time had a very sentimental take on death and dying. Everything had to be sweet and calm and sappy.
Candle in the Wind is a threnody song with music and lyrics by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It was originally written in 1973, in honor of Marilyn Monroe, who had died 11 years earlier. In 1997, John performed a rewritten version of the song as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales.