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- Around Town: Friday, July 18, 2008 (Tri-City Herald)
Mid-Columbia happenings for the week of Friday, July 18, 2008
- Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of the gulag, dies (Boston Globe)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist whose unyielding opposition to Soviet dictatorship made him one of the heroic figures of the 20th century, died late yesterday outside his home in Moscow. The cause of death was heart failure, his son, Stepan , told the Associated Press. He was 89.
- Interfaith community seeks common ground (Ashland Daily Tidings)
A Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu and an atheist walk into a room on Sunday. It's a scene that could begin like a stereotypical joke about religion but instead of a punch line, there will be a message.
- News Briefs - Amherst Bulletin
News BriefsAmherst Bulletin, MA - 19 hours agoThe event includes musical performances, poetry open mike, harvest Olympics, lulav shakes, folk dancing, family art projects, Sukkot memory interviews, ...
- Black Voice News Goes Back To School - Black Voice News
Black Voice News Goes Back To SchoolBlack Voice News, CA - 51 minutes agoI saw a bright, yet insecure young Black girl standing at the front of the class in her flip-flops and worn jeans nervous about reading her poetry aloud to ...
- Poet finds new love in novel work - BCLocalNews
Poet finds new love in novel workBCLocalNews, Canada - 13 minutes agoHe won a Governor General’s award for poetry in 1979, and has been shortlisted for everything from the Charles Taylor Award for Literary Non-Fiction to the ...
- Poetry competition - Newindpress
Poetry competitionNewindpress, India - 18 minutes agoPALAKKAD: The Higher Secondary English Teachers’ Forum of Palakkad district proposed to conduct a competition for versification in English at the BEM HSS, ...
- Mahmoud Darwish: Palestinian 'poet of the resistance' (Independent)
The poet Mahmoud Darwish was the voice of the Palestinian odyssey, whose stark writing reflected the desperation and alienation of the Palestinian people. He published more than 20 collections of poetry, which have been translated into many languages (although few of them into English), and was the Arab world's best-selling poet. His poems are engraved in the hearts of millions of Palestinians ...
- Maori work wins award - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzMaori work wins awardStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 6 hours agoRichmond poet Jessica Le Bas won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay prize for the best first book of poetry. Nelson bookshop Page and ...
- Poet Laureate got writer's block (Independent)
As Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion has worked tirelessly to promote his love of words. But nine years in the job have taken their toll.
- To witness Sherman Lee's legacy, just look at Cleveland Museum of Art ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland Museum of Art Sherman Lee posed with a pair of early 10th-century Chola-period Hindu bronzes acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1961. Lee, who directed the museum from 1958 to 1983, boosted the depth and quality of its holdings ...
- Turning Off The TV - The Times
Turning Off The TVThe Times, South Africa - Aug 3, 2008Yes, all those adverts for ringtones, lotto numbers, cheap bad poetry and soft porn imagery. There are so many things about this advertising strategy that ...
- Darwin's Belated American Birthday Present - Common Dreams
Today is the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth (the 199th, as it happens) and, as usual, scientists around the world will hold ceremonies honoring the man responsible for the foundational insight of modern science - the theory of evolution by ...
- Fairfield war hero buried with honors - Connecticut Post
Fairfield war hero buried with honorsConnecticut Post, CT - 3 hours agoHe was, she said, "poetry in motion, a legend, a giant of a man." For the Rev. Samuel Scott, meeting Michael Daly in 1995 as a newly ordained priest was a ...
- Robert Giroux, 94, editor and publisher who guided prominent author, dies (Arizona Daily Star)
Robert Giroux, an editor and publisher who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and ultimately added his name to one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J. He was 94.
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