Tangents 82-98.

The article presents information on tangents from number 82 to tangent number 98. According to tangent number 84 the new poet laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, said about his $35,000-a-year position, "This is really an apolitical position, and I think it ought to stay that way." Poetry is sort of a small piece of order. 85 number tangent says 1960s Daniel Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation and a consultant to both the Department of Defense and the White House. In this time period he worked on a top-secret study of US decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68-the study later came to be known as the "Pentagon Papers."