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- John and Timothy Rigas get small reductions in sentences in Adelphia ... - Buffalo News
A judge originally sentenced John Rigas, right, to 15 years in federal prison and Timothy Rigas to 20 years, but he had to reconsider that sentence because an appellate court threw out one count of their 18-count conviction. WASHINGTON — John and ...
- Thomas Jefferson, Gentleman Scholar (The New York Sun)
The title of Kevin Hayes's new study of Thomas Jefferson, "The Road to Monticello" (Oxford University Press, 752 pages, $34.95), holds out several possibilities. Is it a book about Jefferson's famous house, which he spent much of his life building and rebuilding, and which still stands as a monument to his multifaceted genius? Or could it be a biography covering the first decades of Jefferson's ...
- Nothing Romantic about environmentalists - Spiked
Nothing Romantic about environmentalistsSpiked, UK - 3 hours agoSir Philip Sidney, perhaps England’s greatest poet, could have been writing about the Romantics in his Defence of Poetry (1595). There, in what almost reads ...
- Cancer victim known for positive outlook - Wausau Daily Herald
Cancer victim known for positive outlookWausau Daily Herald, WI - 20 minutes agoHe wrote his prayers with heart and style akin to poetry, fellow Elks Lodge members said. Last year, when their son got married, Randy and Sheryl Senn of ...
- Sports writer George Kimball: My close-up view of boxing's golden age (Independent)
How many times has a drunk put you in a steely grip and told you that the world wouldn't believe his story, and that, boy, did he have a book to write, and maybe one day he would get round to writing it?
- Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land - Financial Times
Thank goodness Tim Mackintosh-Smith didn’t listen to his Arabic teacher’s advice not to go to Yemen to brush up his enclitic pronouns. “Why don’t you go somewhere respectable?†he was asked. Had he opted for the safer bet of Cairo or ...
- Appetite for learning shapes seniors' life - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
"We know the poet's a man, but is there any part of his poem that successfully conveys the feelings of a woman?" When Prof. Shinji Watanabe asked his class about a poem from the Spoon River Anthology (1915), told from the point of view of a female ...
- A Celebration of Sand, in Vast Quantities or One Grain at a Time (New York Times)
A baggy compendium of artworks at the Parrish Art Museum offers a chance to meditate on the many meanings of one of the world?s cheapest and most precious materials.
- Everyone ages - ASU's College of Human Services helps us do it better - Arizona State University
Everyone ages - ASU's College of Human Services helps us do it betterArizona State University, Tempe - Jul 14, 2008The Osher Institute provides stimulating, university-quality learning experiences for adults who want to explore topics from computers to politics to poetry ...
- Book Folks: Vaughn to visit G'town library - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Tennessee Poet-Laureate-for-Life Maggi Vaughn will visit the Germantown Community Library today and Monday, spreading the word about reading, writing and listening to poetry. Vaughn was named to the nonpaying, lifetime post in 1999, and since then ...
- Oh, what a paradise was lost - News & Observer
News & ObserverOh, what a paradise was lostNews & Observer, NC - 59 minutes agoBut just because he likes to read poetry doesn't make him Lincoln, and the other characters value him far more highly than seems rational. ...
- What's new at your local library - Idaho Statesman
Adult fantasy. In the epic conclusion of the Dark Disciple trilogy, Mina finally uncovers the truth about herself, a discovery that drives her insane, and embarks on a perilous quest, accompanied by Rhys, the monk of Majere, his dog Atta, and the ...
- Canadian novelist, poet Margaret Atwood wins Spanish literary award (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MADRID, Spain - Canadian author Margaret Atwood has won Spain's Prince of Asturias literary prize. The jury praised the 68-year-old writer for work that covers several genres "with sharpness and irony."
- The 'sins' of the father don't sit well with the son - Toronto Sun
Boston GlobeThe 'sins' of the father don't sit well with the sonToronto Sun, Canada - 4 hours ago(There are a few "adult" flashbacks as well, one in which Arthur chooses the occasion of a poetry award gala to publicly scoff at his son's career -- "All I ...When Did You Last See Your Father? Toronto Starall 20 news articles
- 'I know I got angels watching over me' - Independent
Share IT'S the new slavery: black men in US jails. The high black incarceration rate in American prisons -- almost 5 per cent of all black males in the United States were incarcerated compared with 0.7 of white males -- has led some black ...
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