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- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (114) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Mukasey insists that the process of partisan entrenchment has been checked following his arrival. A measure of skepticism on this point is warranted. In fact, the problem is far broader than the two probes undertaken by the Justice Department’s ...
- Berlin gets bookish - The Local - Hamburg
Berlin gets bookishThe Local - Hamburg, Germany - 1 hour agoRevue Martin Jankowski and the rapper and slam poet Gauner moderate a night of slam poetry at the Ballhouse Ost, with DJ Paul America on the decks. ...
- Business forum: Your story? Just the facts, ma'am (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Mark Jaffe is president of Wyatt & Jaffe, an executive recruiting firm based in Minneapolis. His e-mail address is mjaffe@wyattjaffe.com . A quick overview for the reader with attention-deficit disorder. Write a brief, dignified paragraph and call it "Expertise" or "Summary."
- Site for mural sought - MLive.com
Michigan Peaceworks is looking for a downtown building owner interested in having a peace-themed mural on an exterior wall. The design work in under way, said Peaceworks' Laura Russello. Mary Thiefels of Tree Town Murals is behind the project. Tree ...
- Thursday August 14, 2008 - 12:01 EST (Rolling Good Times)
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Fallsview Casino Resort announced today that award-winning R&B singer/songwriter Ashanti will perform one show only in the resort's Avalon Theatre on Saturday, October 11.
- Customers Try to Save Boise Restaurant - Newwest.net
Just two buildings away from the busiest pedestrian walkway in downtown Boise, Satchel’s Grill has been a fixture in the breakfast, lunch and weekend-night date scene for five years. With its fresh, healthy food and good wine and beer, Satchel’s ...
- Party to mark new book - Baltimore Sun
Party to mark new bookBaltimore Sun, United States - 4 minutes agoFans of all ages are invited to join in the "Walk the Plank Runway" costume contest and submit a sea chantey for a Pirate Poetry and Song Contest. ...
- The masochistic joys of festivals - Daily Telegraph
Now that we all have central heating, televisions and roofs over our heads, where can the old-fashioned British masochist - lover of queues, rain, crowds - go at weekends? The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to ...
- Graphic Novels - School Library Journal
Graphic NovelsSchool Library Journal - 17 minutes agoThe book opens with a “prologue†that admirably and entertainingly sums up the classic story in just seven pages of poetry and panel art. ...
- Soon, Osama's book of poems 22 Sep 2008, 0012 hrs IST,PTI (The Times of India)
LONDON: Osama bin Laden was once a -skilled poet", a media report said on Sunday revealing a new facet of the world's most wanted terrorist. The elusive al-Qaida leader's literary work will be published soon by an Oxford-educated academic expert in Arabic, it said.
- UK`s oldest joke unearthed! - Zee News
London, Aug 01: A 1,000-year-old double-meaning wry observation is what British academics consider to be their country's oldest joke. They found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads ...
- Words to cringe by -- and laugh about - News & Observer
Words to cringe by -- and laugh aboutNews & Observer, NC - 3 hours agoSo one night, she went to a friend's house, and over box wine, she read a few selections. Her friend laughed hard. And even though sharing her youthful ...
- Kay Ryan To Be Named Poet Laureate (The New York Sun)
Kay Ryan will be named the nation's next poet laureate today by the librarian of Congress, James Billington, the New York Times reported tonight. A Californian, Ms. Ryan, 62, is known for her short, playful poems, for which she has won the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2001 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and three Pushcart Prizes. Her work ...
- How 'Genius' Bill Walsh brought brains to a brute-force game - Inside Bay Area
For decades, the consensus held that the thinking fan's game was baseball. In its leisurely rhythms were the textures, subtleties and nuances of life itself. Football, by contrast, was the brute sport, a conflict of power and mayhem. That was before ...
- British universities are losing out as authors are selling their archives to US institutions (Guardian Unlimited)
British universities are losing out as big bucks are leading authors to sell their archives to US institutions, says Chris Arnot
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