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- I'll take the Manhattan: Ode to a cocktail classic - Bridgeton News
JULIA EWAN/WASHINGTON POST The Manhattan is a drink that encourages experimentation. Mix up a classic or try the Black Manhattan, background. H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet ...
- Jam Session - UNM Daily Lobo (subscription)
Jam SessionUNM Daily Lobo (subscription), NM - 4 hours ago"If they wrote a book of poetry, they can read 15 minutes. I really, really want to make it sort of a training ground. We had a stand-up comic at poetry ...
- Where silence is on the timetable: Quiet is key at Quaker schools - The Independent
There are a number of noises that one associates with school: the cacophony of young voices in a playground; the chatter of a busy dining hall; and the teacher's whistle on the playing field. But at Quaker schools, there's a fourth that's part of the ...
- Afghanistan: Iraq All Over Again - AlterNet
Afghanistan: Iraq All Over AgainAlterNet, CA - Aug 5, 2008As the show proceeded, we ran an online poll: Should we send more troops to Afghanistan? The result: Some 60 percent of respondents watching -- a mostly ...
- Record: I am an Arab! (Express India)
Mahmoud Darwish, the incomparable poet of Palestinian experience, of exile, and of resistance, has slipped...
- Daily Flog: Hedgehog Day on Wall Street; no one's selling greed short - Village Voice
Victims' families say yes. As Evelyn Cabrera, a senior at Bronx Guild High School, sits down in October 2005 to write a college application essay about a meaningful life experience, she stares at a blank page in her notebook, the one where she ...
- Debut brings women's stories to wider audience - El Paso Times
"Peeping Tom Tom Girl" by Marisela Norte (San Diego City Works Press, $12.95 paperback). In the introduction to Marisela Norte's first book of poetry, "Peeping Tom Tom Girl" (San Diego City Works Press, $12.95 paperback), the scholar George Lipsitz ...
- The Solar System Was Nice While It Lasted - RhinoTimes.com Greensboro
The Solar System Was Nice While It LastedRhinoTimes.com Greensboro, NC - 1 hour agoSo the really, really bad news is that collider's not going to go online in October as had been planned, but now they have (A) moved up the date of the end ...
- Mark's Steel confused (Ilford Recorder)
STAND-UP comic, satirist, columnist, quiz show panellist and author, Mark Steel is a rare being, writes MARK TAYLOR. He is multi-talented.
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- Cowboy poets to perform in Prescott - AZCentral.com
He may well mispronounce a term . . . Eagerly . . . slang or slur a word. Oh, can be a strain on proper English . . . I'd shutter to hear my ol' teachers describe, The way cowboys abuse the English language, It'd work'um up inside." That observation ...
- Britain's Gordon Brown Fights for His Political Life - Time
If Britons harbor doubts about their politicians — and surveys suggest they trust them only fractionally more than they trust tabloid reporters — the annual conference of the governing Labour party may have reinforced their skepticism. For the ...
- An Influx of Poets - Central Maine Morning Sentinel
An Influx of PoetsCentral Maine Morning Sentinel, ME - 35 minutes agoA two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Lowell has been called the greatest American lyrical poet of the 20th century. Stafford, who won the Pulitzer Prize for ...
- Royal Oak man's videos help deaf people connect to pop culture - Detroit Free Press
The girls would smile, and ask for more, and that's when Sean Forbes realized he was on to something good. The 26-year-old Royal Oak resident, partially deaf since infancy, had a can't-miss party trick: interpreting hit songs for his friends, using ...
- In a Dash, Bolt Sprints Into History - Washington Post
BEIJING, Aug. 21 -- The mouth of the World's Fastest Man, flying along at a sprinter's clip and threatening to careen out of its lane, suddenly screeched to a complete halt. In mid-sentence, Usain Bolt looked at the clock on the wall, which read 10 ...
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