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- Nearly 2,000 Brought To Safety - The Bulletin
Galveston, Texas - Rescuers said yesterday they had saved nearly 2,000 people from the waterlogged streets and splintered houses left behind by Hurricane Ike. Glass-strewn Houston was placed under a weeklong curfew, and millions of people in the ...
- Jay Bookman - Atlanta Journal Constitution
The entry titled "Here's fresh thread," and any of the comments about it. ….most Americans believe abortion laws should remain as they are; the sensitive issue of terminating a pregnancy, most of us agree, should be left to a woman, her physician ...
- QUICK HITS: Plan ahead for a concert - and hot air balloons - Daily News Transcript
Pilots from all over the Northeast will fly their hot air balloons over Hudson Saturday and Sunday for the fourth annual Hudson Elks Club No. 959 Hot Air Balloon Festival. Since its inception in 2005, this event has doubled from seven to 15 balloons ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies - Reuters
CitizenMahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, diesReuters - 2 hours agoBy Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of ...Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies Calgary Heraldall 223 news articles
- How a poetry-enhancing technique boosts memory - New Kerala
Washington, July 31 : Whether it's a nursery rhyme or a Shakespearian sonnet, alliterations have always been an integral part of poetry. Now, a new study suggests that the literary technique is not only useful for poetry but also for memory ...
- Performer marks anniversary with music/poetry CD - Gresham Outlook
Performer marks anniversary with music/poetry CDGresham Outlook, OR - 2 hours agoOne of 14 children in a family growing up in Kentucky, Sinclair says she loved television shows such as “Hee Haw” and Dolly Parton and such acts as the Bay ...
- 'White Heat' forges friendship - Minneapolis Star Tribune
I n 1862, writer and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson received a letter that held four poems written in a wavy hand, and this question: "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?" Emily Dickinson, then 31, was not so naive or ...
- Regional Happenings: Elvis Week, cowboys, melons & more (Baxter Bulletin)
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- Weaving together bodies and words - Tonight South Africa
In the sunlit Newtown dance studio Lebo Mashile's words trigger the motion which dissolves into poetry. Standing in a tight-knit clump, veteran choreographer Sylvia Glasser and her dancers listen to the poet read the hand-written verse which was ...
- On the Verge of a Hmong-American Literary Movement - New America Media
On the Verge of a Hmong-American Literary MovementNew America Media, CA - 58 minutes agoThese memories came back to me as I performed poetry and prose with other Hmong American writers at the Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner Auditorium on July 26. ...
- Roger Hall; WWII spy who made it fun in his memoir; 89 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Roger Hall, 89, who wrote “You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger,” a wry memoir about World War II spycraft that became a cult classic in intelligence circles and appealed to a wide audience for its irreverence, died July 20 at his home in Wilmington, Del. He had congestive heart failure.
- Book review: 'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf' - International Herald Tribune
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf By Victor Pelevin Translated by Andrew Bromfield 335 pages. $25.95. Viking. In this satirical, erotic allegory of the post-Soviet and post-9/11 world, Victor Pelevin gives new meaning to the words "unreliable narrator ...
- The vicar's son, the rebel and the poet - CricInfo.com
CricInfo.comThe vicar's son, the rebel and the poetCricInfo.com, UK - 37 minutes agoHe even wrote poetry, for heaven's sake! He would have had agents and commercial outlets bickering to acquire his services. And he would have loved it all. ...
- Olympics: Di Maria winner earns gold for Argentina - guardian.co.uk
Olympics: Di Maria winner earns gold for Argentinaguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 hours agoThis match was a replay of the marvellous final of 1996, in which Nigeria became the first African country to win a major senior international football ...
- The Pathetic Monster - OpEdNews
The Pathetic MonsterOpEdNews, PA - 6 hours ago... and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, ...
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