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- Can A Poet Be More Accurate Than A Journalist? - II.- Cuba (El Faro)
This is the second and last part of Romanian poet and essayist Andrei Codrescu’s series on Reflections on Journalism. His trip to Cuba, of which he tells here some misadventures, was finally made a book called “Aye, Cuba: A Socio-Erotic Journeyâ€.
- Andrei Codrescu, NPR Biography - NPR News
Poet, essayist and novelist Andrei Codrescu has been contributing commentaries to NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered since 1983. During this time, he's also reported from Romania, Cuba and New Orleans. In 1989, Codrescu returned ...
- Snoop Dogg plays to his image (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Snoop Dogg plays to his image as the huggable gangsta.
- ‘Tolerance is essential, Mr Laden,’ pupil (Việt Nam News)
"Tolerance is essential to all relationships set up by human beings. The important thing is not what each person receives but what they can offer." This is an excerpt from a letter by tenth-grade student Ho Thi Que Chi to Muslim terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
- The evil secret of Radovan Karadzic - Daily Mirror
Under the crazy white beard and specs .. Radovan Karadzic, beast of Bosnia He posed as medic promoting herbal cures and healing with prayer But he was wanted for deaths of thousands in Balkans war massacre With his long, white, bushy beard, scraped ...
- Taj Mahal chose to harvest blues from around the world - ScrippsNews
Back in the late '50s, when he was a teen-ager, Taj Mahal was torn between a career in music and a life on the farm. With his passion and intelligence, he would have been successful at either one, but his fans can be thankful that he chose the guitar ...
- Library of the lost - Guardian Unlimited
The English art-noticing classes, a voluble minority, have never had much time for Percy Wyndham Lewis. But they do know one thing, they prefer to dislike him as a writer (racist, misogynist, premature Hitler enthusiast) than as a painter. Plural ...
- Maintaining the Olympics ideals - The Tide
Maintaining the Olympics idealsThe Tide, Nigeria - Aug 7, 2008He says that this is why no African country has won the bid to host the Games to date. Martins says the Games have become an anti-loser platform as losers ...
- Obituaries in the news - The Associated Press
Obituaries in the newsThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoDarwish first gained prominence in the 1960s with the publication of his first poetry collection, "Bird without Wings." It included the poem "Identity Card ...
- Event Celebrates Thorp Centennial (Mountain View Telegraph)
By Laura Nesbitt Mountain View Telegraph Estancia may be the birthplace of cowboy songs and poetry. Susan Gervasi, who will introduce her film, “On the Trail of Jack Thorp,†believes that's true.
- McGrath retires after 27 years - Lemoore Advance
McGrath retires after 27 yearsLemoore Advance, CA - 5 hours agoMcGrath also recently resigned as "Poet Laureate for Life" in the city of Lemoore, a position that required him to write and recite poems for numerous city ...
- Latitude preparations underway - Evening News Norwich
The sheep are ready to be painted, the daisies are out and the pink poodle is in position - as final preparations are made for Latitude this weekend, organisers say it should be the best one yet. The festival at Henham Park, near Southwold, kicks off ...
- Letters: School curriculum (Independent)
Sir: Professors Scott, Coffield, Ball and Taylor (letter, 2 June) are to be congratulated on indicating that the Government's education policy is self-defeating because of frequent shifts in policy. But this is not all that is wrong. Comparative studies of educational achievement show that we are falling slowly down the international league tables.
- Lee Isaac Chung To Receive 2008 Rooftop Films and Eastern Effects ... - The Film Panel Notetaker
The Film Panel NotetakerLee Isaac Chung To Receive 2008 Rooftop Films and Eastern Effects ...The Film Panel Notetaker, NY - 1 hour agoThe title comes from a book of poetry by Gerald Stern: “Lucky life isn't one long string of horrors / and there are moments of peace, and pleasure, ...
- Sheikh-down cruise: Italian line sails Arabian peninsula from Dubai - Miami Herald
I stared for a time at the museum-case model that portrayed early Abu Dhabi as a sandy flat with a loose scattering of mud huts, on which the most sophisticated architectural feature were the goat pens. I half expected to see tiny figures swinging ...
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