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- Pacquiao Rising: Doghouse Boxing visits Manny Pacquiao - Doghouseboxing.com
advice, pontificate, plan and talk trash. It’s all in a day’s business at the gym. This particular day, the voices are all that is present as I wait for Filipino superstar and the newest member of the lightweight ranks, Manny Pacquiao, to arrive ...
- Jeffrey Moore's top 10 campus novels - guardian.co.uk
Jeffrey Moore's top 10 campus novelsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoI'm with Christopher Hitchens here, who recently ranked it as "the funniest book of the past half century". A poem of 999 lines by the murdered American ...
- The $25 Haiku - Denver Post
The $25 HaikuDenver Post, CO - 56 minutes agoIf it all makes you feel like you've got something to say in a 5-7-5 poetry form, enter a one-stanza haiku at lifestyle@denverpost.com or file it at ...
- If we're comfortable in our non-belief, why bash believers? - Chicago Sun-Times
Albert Einstein's letter, containing a short rant about God and the Bible, sold recently for 25 times its expected price, thanks, in part, to professional atheist Richard Dawkins being one of the unsuccessful bidders. It's long been said religion is ...
- ‘I have little time for poetic constraints’ (Hindustan Times)
The last gent in public affairs showing a flair for poetry (not counting the Bhojpuri aphorismsspouting Lalu Prasad Yadav) was Atal Bihari Vajpayee. So what a pleasant irony that in his debut collection of poems, I Witness: Partial Observations (IndiaInk, Rs 295), Congressman and Minister Kapil Sibal has chosen Vajpayee as a subject for a poem.
- Spalding plays "cool" blend of jazz, R&B, bossa nova (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Moments after Esperanza Spalding finished singing "Precious" on NBC's "Late Show With David Letterman" in early June, the host strode right up and anointed her "the coolest person we've ever had on the show."
- Spring in his step, swing in vote? - Daily News and Analysis
NEW DELHI: Prime minister Manmohan Singh is not normally given to expansive gestures. He is at the best of times camera-shy and timid. But Monday it was a very different Manmohan Singh on view. His body language oozed confidence; there was a spring ...
- The inspiring story of Robert Mugabe - Tehran Times
Robert Mugabe has been cut off from his feelings ever since his carpenter father abandoned the family when Robert was a shy 10-year-old. Had his mother, Bona, been emotionally robust, he might have weathered the crushing abandonment. But she was ...
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- Bill Studebaker's body still missing (The Times-News)
The body of William Studebaker, a 61-year-old Twin Falls author, poet and photographer, was still not recovered by Sunday evening, police and family members said. He is presumed drowned.
- Calendar: This week in Davidson, June 11-17 - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Striders Group Fun Run: Starts from the Activity Center. For details, visit www.nashvillestriders.com/GroupFunRuns.htm . 5:30 p.m. June 11 and 18, Centennial Park, West End and 25th; 862-8424. Youth Volleyball Organizational Meeting ...
- Get to Hilton's five-star festival - Tonight
Get to Hilton's five-star festivalTonight, South Africa - 1 hour agoSix talented performers, from diverse backgrounds, create this explosive mix of relevant poetry, seasoned with a sprinkle of funky, popular tunes, jivin', ...
- Film Weekly on Cass and Man on Wire - Guardian Unlimited
With audience awards from Sundance, Edinburgh and Britdoc, Man On Wire finally arrives in cinemas this weekend and we turn our heads skywards to ooh and aah. It's an incredible feat of film-making, restaging the daring Frenchman Philippe Petit's high ...
- Fêted poet Ahmed Faraz laid to Rest - Pakistan Times
Fêted poet Ahmed Faraz laid to RestPakistan Times, Pakistan - 29 minutes agoAround 15 collections of his poetry were published during his life and all of his popular poems and Ghazals were sung by prominent singers. ...
- IS LAPU-LAPU's LANGUAGE DYING? - PR Inside
Among the causes of the anemic stride of the language, popularly known as "Sinugboanong Binisaya", are the disparity in numbers of media outlets between Tagalog and Cebuano, radio and television programming imbalance, apathy of the Cebuano-speaking ...
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