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- Sex and drugs and English literature: Coleridge and a Faustian pact - The Independent
A translation of Goethe's 'Faustus' by one of the greatest names in literary history is to be published in September. Arifa Akbar traces an extraordinary 200-year-old story that began with a £100 advance and a broken promise The year was 1814 and ...
- Local artists have good thing going in Los Gatos - San Jose Mercury News
Local artists have good thing going in Los GatosSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour agoOn the third Thursday of every month, local artists hold a unique gathering, the Thursday Gig, highlighting art, poetry and literature from the Bay Area. ...
- Outskirts Press Announces One Night Stand, the Latest Highly ... - Emediawire (press release)
Outskirts Press Announces One Night Stand, the Latest Highly ...Emediawire (press release), WA - Jul 8, 2008With US wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, ...
- Strawberry picking offers a lesson on the joy of simple work - Ashland Daily Press
Recently I drove out to Brenda and Jack Erickson's farm near Bayfield and picked a big batch of strawberries. For nearly a half hour I was on my hands and knees pushing aside the rich green plants reaching for their bright red, sweet berries, all the ...
- Rumors abound after quake - Boston Globe
BEIJING - Almost as soon as the initial aftershocks stopped reverberating last week, the rumors began. Some say that frogs, insects, and other animals fled shortly before the earth shook. Others insist that water mysteriously drained from ponds, or ...
- Fashion News - Fashion Wire Daily - Yahoo News
Paris - Half the passages in this week's haute couture show by Jean Paul Gaultier had birds' names; several were simply entitled cage, befitting a collection where many of fashion's most beautiful models hit the runway bound in wire traps or metal ...
- Burned Iraqi refugee rebuilds life in Houston (w/video) (Houston Chronicle)
Four years and 10 surgeries later, Ameera Shahmani is now in Houston to see whether specialists here can help her regain the use of her scar-warped fingers as she prepares to build a new life in America.
- A different kind of film school (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - What is unique about the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center in Antipolo is that film students are exposed not just to the basics of filmmaking but to the other forms of art as well.
- A Marriage Made in Hell (Phoenix New Times)
We were leaning against the DJ booth at Homme for the Thursday-night weekly FALLOUT when someone's shadow sidled up and queried, "So, you a rivethead or a cybergoth?" Granted, we were wearing a black, nylon trench coat, but honey, please, it's a Marc Jacobs. We quickly turned, unhinged our jaw, and ...
- The Community College of Baltimore County - Hampton Roads Daily Press
Those with good memories may remember a system of junior colleges that started in the 1950s and prepared students for four-year colleges and universities. The Independent System of Junior Colleges eventually became Catonsville Community College ...
- Somalia: Crush the Extremists in Mogadishu! - Garowe Online
Somalia: Crush the Extremists in Mogadishu!Garowe Online, Somalia - 14 minutes agoNo Somali Ulema bothered, let alone condemn it, with Somalis performing or listening to music, poetry, Somali traditional dances or wedding ceremonies; ...
- AJC Organizes its Eighth Poetry Competition - Al Arab Online
In order to promote artistic creation and encourage cultural communication, the Tangier Young Creators’ Association (AJC) is organizing its eighth poetry competition. This eighth contest, opening in April 2008, is dedicated to the great Arab poets ...
- In the footsteps of Osama ... - Asia Times
KUNAR VALLEY, Afghanistan - Nearly seven years after invading Afghanistan to go after Osama bin Laden, the United States has stepped up its campaign to catch the al-Qaeda leader and his senior associates, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, who are believed ...
- Community lifted me from grief over brother's murder - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Community lifted me from grief over brother's murderRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 3 hours agoIn school, I had the opportunity to involve myself in a grief group that opened up a venue to release my inner feelings by writing and performing poetry. ...
- Troutman Middle School eighth-graders nationally recognized for their writing (Statesville Record & Landmark)
Two Troutman Middle School students won big in a national writing contest. Eight-graders De’Ann Perry, 15, and Amber Wells, 14, were among the students to win the 2008 National Council of Teachers of English Promising Young Writers Contest. The two girls were among the five students to win in the state and 200 to win nationwide. Eighth-grade language arts teacher Daniel Skinner chose both ...
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