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- Privatizing Social Security is wrong - Democrat and Chronicle
A July 27 letter writer complains that workers "can pay into Social Security for years, die early, and never have any equity for the family." This is true. Social Security was not designed to be a personal retirement account. Social Security ...
- Michael Phelps joins Olympic greats with ninth gold medal - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukMichael Phelps joins Olympic greats with ninth gold medalTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThough strangely ungainly on dry land, Phelps was poetry in motion from the moment he pushed off from his starting blocks. A perfect dive, deeper than most ...
- Hubert Benhamdine (RainbowNetwork.com)
In the savagely poignant drama I Dreamt Under The Water, a young man voyages through the dark heart of Parisian nightlife and the extremes of self-destruction.
- Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival has events to suit everyone ... - Southport Visiter
Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival has events to suit everyone ...Southport Visiter, UK - 59 minutes agoCOSTA Award-winning poet, Jean Sprackland will join Carol Ann Duffy for an evening of poetry at Southport Arts Centre on Friday, September 26, at 8pm. ...
- Nothing small about nano (Hindustan Times)
Truckers’ graffiti standing in for bumper sticker. What used to be a child’s lisping farewell is now deadly serious business. This week, Tata’s threat to withdraw the Nano from West Bengal made as many headlines as Bihar’s sorrow and the violence in Orissa.
- Man v. Flesh (Jackson Free Press)
Andre Dubus III’s “Garden of the Last Days†(W. W. Norton, 2008, $24.95) is a brick of a book. At 500-plus pages, it’s America on parade: g-strings and neon, alcohol and testosterone, easy cash, patriotism and dumb sentiment. Once launched, though, a brick sinks quickly.
- Local Author Gives Voice To Alzheimer's Sufferers - WISC
Local Author Gives Voice To Alzheimer's SufferersWISC, WI - 1 hour agoPoetry is a Madison woman's way of bringing awareness to Alzheimer's Disease. Each poem Brodsky composes paints a picture about a different person she's met ...
- Sculptor's latest work honors role models - Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND  Sculptor Mario Chiodo began his life-long fascination with history at age 5, when he first learned about Abraham Lincoln. As he grew he devoured biographies of Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Mahatma Ghandi. He got lost in the ...
- * Nonfiction. By Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin, $24. Grade: A- - Rocky Mountain News
* Nonfiction. By Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin, $24. Grade: A-Rocky Mountain News, CO - 40 minutes agoHall was 26 and had just published his first book of poetry when his father died. The elder Hall - embittered by his own job choices, limited by a family ...
- Carrie A. Nickens, 95 - Charleston Post & Courier
COLUMBIA  A South Carolina woman who became well-known for her book on her biracial heritage has died at age 95. Funeral officials said a memorial service for author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens will be held today in Columbia. Nickens died ...
- Why do erudite people boast of blissful ignorance of maths? - Irish Times
Why do erudite people boast of blissful ignorance of maths?Irish Times, Ireland - 2 hours agoLike the Irish language and romantic poetry, maths is, surely, worth studying for its own sake. The pool from which media fulminators are drawn is ...
- Pigeon race is poetry in motion (The Australian)
THE artform of poetry will be revived by eight pigeons in a unique race, flying down the NSW south coast with poem in claw.
- New freedom unleashes an unrestrained madness (Miami Herald)
Haven Kimmel knows, as all writers do, that successful authors must approach their craft with as many useful tools as possible: patience, stamina, exemplary research skills. But in her case, she jokes, a healthy dollop of something else is helpful.
- Keeping Brunei's Traditional Literature Alive (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan- The finals of the 11th national-level traditional poetry recital competition or the Syair, for secondary schools, colleges and private education institutions in conjunction with Teacher's Day was held yesterday at the Dewan Serrnayuda of the Language and Literature Bureau in Berakas.
- Writer travel: the worst holiday companions - Guardian Unlimited
Can you imagine anything grimmer than a fortnight on a train with Paul Theroux (that will cost you six grand)? Next stop Rotherham, baby. Photograph: Nation Wong/Corbis Next year's summer holiday is all wrapped up: I'll be on a 14-day trip on the ...
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