Competing in the poetry category are Leonita Flynn, John Fuller, Matthew Hollis and Michael Symmons Roberts.

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John Fuller, an Antigua-based criminal attorney who has known Sir Allen for 10 years, said the financier would be likely fight hard against the charges.

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" John Updike told a fuller story about characters from "Hamlet" (and other fictional sources) in his superb novel, "Gertrude and Claudius.

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