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- A real Republican platform - WorldNetDaily
We recall the words of the old popular song, "What a Difference a Day Makes; 24 Little Hours." In this political year, it was actually 38 hours, but the poetry is the same. That's the time-spread between the locking up of the 2008 Republican platform ...
- Slavery is gone, but not mentality (Tucson Citizen)
The symbolism behind Juneteenth - which occurred 133 years ago today - is all too easy for today's African-Americans to forget. Tucson's annual celebration, eating fresh fried-catfish dinners and homemade peach cobbler and entertaining into the night, is fine. But in a much larger sense, Juneteenth is an outward show of American blacks' self-improvement
- ‘Bachelorette’ recap: DeAnna sends Sean back to his tanning booth - Portsmouth Herald News
‘Bachelorette’ recap: DeAnna sends Sean back to his tanning boothPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 34 minutes agoPerhaps composing poetry for Shamu. “I think DeAnna is doing a really good job being open and honest with her emotions,†said Trista, which is a nice way of ...
- Celebrities read poetry in Tulaan sa Tren project - Inquirer.net
Celebrities read poetry in Tulaan sa Tren projectInquirer.net, Philippines - 3 hours agoIt will be a different sort of experience as the National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) bring Philippine poetry ...
- A spectacular blizzard and a master clown - Taipei Times
Slava¡¦s Snow Show promises a series of fantastic spectacles: a snow blizzard made of confetti that engulfs the audience; a giant spider web that forms on stage and wraps around the audience; and life-sized balls that bounce about the theater. This ...
- Globetrotting in the Bayou City - Houston Chronicle
Bird-shaped custard rice cakes at Fung's Kitchen will help customers think they've been whisked away for the summer. With cramped planes, screaming babies (even in first class) and sky-high fares, flying isn't much fun anymore. Nor are road trips ...
- NEA Awards 'Big Read' Grants - Daily Herald
LOS ANGELES -- The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host "The Big Read," an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture. In 2004 ...
- Submissions requested for local magazine - The Banner-Graphic
Submissions requested for local magazineThe Banner-Graphic, IN - 13 hours agoAll styles of writing are encouraged, including poetry, short stories, journal entries and interviews. Submissions for this magazine are not limited in ...
- New program will recruit kids to fight violence with art, music, and ... - Boston Globe
City youth armed with digital cameras and audio recorders will capture images and words that they hope will persuade their peers to shun violence, under a new city program being announced this afternoon in Dorchester. The youth will work on ...
- Sudanese child soldier trades gun for beats - MediaGlobal
MediaGlobalSudanese child soldier trades gun for beatsMediaGlobal, NY - 11 minutes ago“I liked it because it reminded me of how people used to talk poetry and rap in my village when I was small,†Jal recalled of his first encounter with the ...
- League to honor 3 for preserving internees' tales - Honolulu Advertiser
Three influential figures in the effort to preserve Hawai'i's Japanese internment stories will be honored today by the Honolulu chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. Robert Bratt, the first director of the Justice Department's Office of ...
- Venus flytraps for Lord Whimsy - National Post
Venus flytraps for Lord WhimsyNational Post, Canada - 4 hours agoIt's a strange little book, billed as "a bounteous selection of essays, philosophical diagrams, poetry and other Arcadian follies concerning the art of ...
- Book tells Lady Liberty's story through many voices Young Readers (The Plain Dealer)
She measures 111 feet tall, weighs 225 tons and sports a 4½-foot-long nose that is "massive but elegant." Meet Lady Liberty, up close and personal, in a stellar collaboration from noted history writer Doreen Rappaport and acclaimed illustrator Matt Tavares.
- Magical stagecraft in Under Milk Wood at PS/21 - Independent News Online
I ONCE SAT on the very bench in Greenwich Village's White Horse Tavern where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death. At least that's what the bartender told me. She should have kept her mouth shut; after hearing that story, I only bought one drink. As ...
- Defecting to and from Soviet Russia (World Tribune)
After WW2 and up to Stalin’s death, in 1953, and his posthumous “dethronement, Communists accounted for almost one-quarter of voters in France and one-third of voters in Italy. For the English-speaking countries, such percentages were fantastically high.
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