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- Martin fought for gay rights - Long Beach Press-Telegram
SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center ...
- Big Brother 9’s girl next bore - Mirror.co.uk
Big Brother 9’s girl next boreMirror.co.uk, UK - 30 minutes agoThe rap task also showcased the powerful poetry of trainee teacher Rachel, who came up with: “As I walked into the Big Brother house I realised I was lucky ...
- Copenhagen: A seasonal guide - CNN International
Copenhagen: A seasonal guideCNN International - 3 hours agoFor one night only some 300 venues in the city stage theater performances, art exhibitions, concerts and poetry readings. Each month CNN visits the world's ...
- Will Barack Obama be a transformational president or another ... - Georgia Straight
Will Barack Obama be a transformational president or another ...Georgia Straight, Canada - 11 hours agoHe is transformational not only by his charisma and brilliance, but by embodying the possibility of an African-American being chosen president in the ...
- More thoughts on TROY - Atlantic Online
More thoughts on TROYAtlantic Online - 50 minutes agoIt was the first poetry I ever knew, the first attempt to capture something deep and unsaid about humanity, and do it in rhythm and in a condensed powerful ...
- Bookworms Unite - The Windy Citizen
Bookworms UniteThe Windy Citizen, IL - 4 hours agoBryce Parsons-Twesten, a college junior, was fifth in line to get into the fair, planning to browse the poetry books. "If I could get some Frank O'Hara, ...
- Seattle Symphony's "A Hero's Life" a rousing program - Seattle Times
7:30 p.m. Thursday, 1 p.m. next Friday and 8 p.m. Oct. 4, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle; $17-$97 (206-215-4747 or www.seattlesymphony.org ). Adversity and triumph are powerful themes in both Richard Strauss' "Ein Heldenleben" and Dmitry ...
- Needham students learn the ropes of a cowboy's life (Needham Times)
Mitchell School parents may have to brace themselves: Cowboy Halloween costumes may be very popular this year. Fully dressed in his cowboy hat, handkerchief, chaps, spurs and cowboy boots, Ernie Sites, who was raised on a ranch in Idaho, came to the Mitchell School Oct. 3, demonstrating what it takes to be a cowboy.
- A Poet and Patriot: Chris Matthews (1946-2008) - SantaCruz.com
A Poet and Patriot: Chris Matthews (1946-2008)SantaCruz.com, CA - 19 hours agoMatthews arrived in Santa Cruz County in 1973, and he immediately immersed himself in the local political and poetry scenes (Night Owl Press published a ...
- Worshippers mark anniversary of Jamaican independence - BirminghamMail.net
Worshippers mark anniversary of Jamaican independenceBirminghamMail.net, UK - 4 hours agoShe said: “I am accepting this on behalf of the community, family and friends because I couldn’t have done any of this work without their support. ...
- Tess Taylor and Taylor Schreiner (New York Times)
They were married on Aug. 23 in Georgetown, Me., in a chapel above the Robinhood Free Meetinghouse.
- Montclair's George Segal Gallery mounts a new exhibition of the ... - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comMontclair's George Segal Gallery mounts a new exhibition of the ...The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 1 hour agoThe all-white figures, their facial features smothered, preserve the anonymity of the street even as they reassert the poetry of the human figure, ...
- Poet gave vioce to Palestinian plight - The National
Poet gave vioce to Palestinian plightThe National, United Arab Emirates - 15 minutes agoDarwish published more than 30 books of poetry and eight books of prose. He was translated into more than 22 languages and won several literary prizes ...
- Darwish and Arab intellectualism - Al Arab Online
Obituaries are for the dead. Generally they don’t appeal, only in so far as they give a final “send off†to the person who has just died. To put it crudely, once people go, it is the end! The idea of writing obituaries, extolling the person and ...
- Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Juneau Empire (subscription)
Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamJuneau Empire (subscription), AK - 3 hours agoHe wrote about 5000 quatrains, a stanza or poem of four lines, embodying his philosophy of life. In Persian these were called rubaiyat. In 1859, in London, ...
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