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- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - FOX News
NEW YORK — My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the ...
- All together now (Times Online)
Can parents and kids really all party happily together? Our correspondent explains the highs and lows
- Highest-ranking Shriner visits area (Pensacola News Journal)
Hadji Shrine welcomed Imperial Sir Douglas E. Maxwell to Pensacola last weekend. During the 2008 Imperial Council Session June 29 through July 3 in St. Louis, Maxwell, of Chesterfield, Mo., was elected the Imperial Potentate of the Shrine International, making him the highest-ranking Shriner in the world.
- Merrill takes home top prize in poetry contest - Yuma Sun
Merrill takes home top prize in poetry contestYuma Sun, AZ - 7 hours agoIn April, Arizona Western College and The Sun's publication 33:10 came together to sponsor the first annual Poetry Contest in Yuma. ...
- Campaigning here, Clinton goes over Culinary’s head - Las Vegas Sun
Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigns Thursday in a largely Hispanic Las Vegas neighborhood represented by Assemblyman Ruben Kihuen, who is backing her. Just beneath the smiles and the hugs and the flash of cameras, Sen. Hillary Clinton played in-your-face ...
- 'Paradise Lost' in George W. Bush's America - Iowa City Press-Citizen
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the poet John Milton's birth. Celebrations are being held throughout the English-speaking world, including a lecture series at Cambridge University, where the poet received his M.A. in 1632, and an ...
- Leonard Cohen International Festival - VUE Weekly
VUE WeeklyLeonard Cohen International FestivalVUE Weekly, Canada - 12 hours agoThat lead me to the poetry, and then the novels, and then lastly the music. So I think I came at him backwards, though as soon as I heard the songs, ...
- Poet's workshop focuses on black writers ages 18 to 90 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Poet's workshop focuses on black writers ages 18 to 90Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 3 hours agoThe nonprofit organization, which calls itself "North America's premier home for Black poetry" is based in New York, but was co-founded by University of ...
- Award entries overflow with a rural theme - Central Western Daily
THERE’S something about the country which has been inspiring the Central West’s wordsmiths over the past few months. Judges of the 2008 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards have reported strong rural themes in many of the entries received in this year ...
- King of Coolmore continues to deliver poetry in motion - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentKing of Coolmore continues to deliver poetry in motionIrish Independent, Ireland - 1 hour ago... which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of human nature," -- George Washington, the first American president. ...
- Edison student graduates, looks ahead - Miami Herald
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacifist and now jailbird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl ...
- Quake books sold for victims - CCTV
CCTVQuake books sold for victimsCCTV, China - 5 hours agoBook lovers in Shanghai thronged to a bookstore Saturday morning, buying a collection of poetry commemorating the Wenchuan Earthquake. ...
- They've been inside, so they can reach youths about staying outside (The Florida Times-Union)
For most of her life, Loutricia Gibbs-Tolbert had to battle demons that were bent on making her a statistic.
- Rhyme is reason for her smile: Young poet wins contest - Lincoln Journal
Rhyme is reason for her smile: Young poet wins contestLincoln Journal, MA - 29 minutes ago“I was really excited,†Pingeon said of winning the contest. Her mother, Elizabeth Graver, said she discovered the Michigan poetry contest and thought it ...
- Poetry and rap at Douglas library - Isle of Man Today
Poetry and rap at Douglas libraryIsle of Man Today, UK - 27 minutes agoSHAKESPEARE meets Snoop Dog at a poetry and rap workshop at Henry Noble Bloom Library, Douglas. Poet Shelley Ann Dwornik is holding the event on July 5 as ...
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