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- Thayer takes the lead at St. Anne’s Episcopal School - Middletown Transcript
   Peter Thayer might be new to the area, but he’s no newcomer to independent schools like St. Anne’s Episcopal School in Middletown, where he recently took over as Head of School.    Thayer hails from Lancaster, Pa., where he was head of ...
- Youth project to offer hope to people of Darfur - The Union Leader
Youth project to offer hope to people of DarfurThe Union Leader, NH - 2 hours agoStudents from the Cooperative Middle School have written poetry about the genocide that will be displayed inside the tent. The groups spent much of last ...
- Pakistan's firebrand music video - NDTV.com
Pakistan's firebrand music videoNDTV.com, India - 40 minutes agoPTI A poem opposing the policies of Pakistan's military ruler in the 1950s has been shaped into a snappy music video by two leftist activists, ...
- Al-Qaida prison escapee warns of more attacks on international forces ... - PR Inside
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Internet audiotape purported to be from an al-Qaida commander who escaped from a U.S. prison warns that this winter will be «hell» for international forces in Afghanistan. The message from Abu Yahia al-Libi, who escaped from ...
- LIBRARY: Book sale this weekend offers 25000 volumes - Ridgefield Press
LIBRARY: Book sale this weekend offers 25000 volumesRidgefield Press, USA - May 12, 2008The Friends have most recently sponsored National Poetry Month programs, the Ridgefield Folk programs (live music at the library) and the Readers’ Corner in ...
- Goethe establishment slams lawyer's romance claims - Feature - Earthtimes
Berlin - Allegations of a secret love affair between a dowager duchess and Germany's greatest writer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, have been hotly rejected this week by German literary scholars. The claims were advanced in a 2003 book by literary sleuth ...
- Reviewing without revealing: a TV writer's lament - Globe and Mail
The difference between this place and academia - I mean besides the sorry lack of ivy-clad brick - is that the ivory tower critics consider the whole art work, from beginning to end, to be up for discussion. The ink-stained wretches, meanwhile, can ...
- Osama and Afghan cinema: an interview with Siddiq Barmak - Open Democracy
Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban feature film, a bleak yet lyrical story of a young girl forced to ‘pass’ as a boy in order to support her widowed mother, is provoking worldwide interest in the country’s cinematic heritage and future. As ...
- Arabisation hobbles Syrian professionals - The National
Arabisation hobbles Syrian professionalsThe National, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoThey then went home to memorise everything in their text books from pre-Islamic poetry criticism to science in Arabic. My younger cousins, now in college ...
- Letting Go - New Yorker
New YorkerLetting GoNew Yorker, United States - 3 hours ago... were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. ...
- Morning update: Thunder boomers (Quad-City Times)
Good morning, Quad-Cities. At 6 a.m. it’s 48 degrees under fair skies. It will be mostly cloudy today with a high near 74 degrees. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon increases to 90 percent in the evening. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain, according to the National Weather Service. New rainfall amounts between a half- and three- quarters-of-an-inch are ...
- Kibbutznik diary longs for 'purity of that generation' - Ha'aretz
Kibbutznik diary longs for 'purity of that generation'Ha'aretz, Israel - 1 hour agoThe language was "not high language, except for poetry quotes." But she is amazed when she looks back. "I can't believe I wrote it. The innocence. ...
- OCtech is site for arts festival (The Times and Democrat)
If you enjoy music, poetry and artwork, make plans to attend the Summer Arts Fest at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College June 5 and 6. The two-day event is sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission (with special funding from the Wallace Foundation) and OCtech.
- Greek court considers Lesbos vs lesbians case - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - A Greek court is considering a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban use of the word lesbian as a term to describe gay women, a court official said on Wednesday. Three Lesbos residents brought the case ...
- The Best Way Out Is Through - New York Times
The Best Way Out Is ThroughNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoFor years, Jay Parini, the Robert Frost biographer and literature professor, had been writing — wrestling with, he says — a book titled “Why Poetry Matters. ...
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