Paulin, a member of Hertford College at Oxford, has been teaching at Columbia University in New York.

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"Frankly, that group is holding us up, " said Westchester Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, the primary sponsor of the alimony law.

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Paulin, a member of the panel for the BBC's Newsnight Review, was last shortlisted for the award in 1999.

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Paulin, who won the Somerset Maugham prize in 1977 for his first collection of poetry, A State of Justice.

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The university has been criticised by Paulin's Colleague, Columbia lecturer Jim Shapiro.

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Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and an international array of poets will also be visiting The Poetry House over the next 12 months.

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Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Westchester Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said she hadn't had time to study the report yet but planned on "looking at it very closely, " she said.

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