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- A song of praise for the poet in peril - Independent
A song of praise for the poet in perilIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoIf Her Majesty felt the need for a soothing topic of conversation with the embattled Archbishop of Canterbury, she might have chatted about poetry. ...
- Clinton's Speech: Pragmatism, Not Poetry - Newsweek
Clinton's Speech: Pragmatism, Not PoetryNewsweek - 4 hours agoHe is pragmatic, tough, and wise") and even McCain ("John McCain is my colleague and my friend. He has served our country with honor and courage"), ...
- Saying goodbye - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
Saying good bye is not one of my favourite things. It's one of those things that brings a lump to my throat and make me want to cry and this after having had to endure so many goodbyes to family members and friends, over the years. Given the nomadic ...
- Hip-hop emcee Tou Saiko Lee takes his message to the streets as he mentors young poets (Pioneer Press)
Tou Saiko Lee isn't the kind of emcee who spits rhymes like nails, hunched over the mic like he's holding off an attack.
- Robin Williams to play World's Greatest Dad - Paste Magazine
When not dispelling the notion of any involvement with the forthcoming Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko , Richard Kelly and Co. have been brewing new material over at Darko Entertainment HQ. Darko folks Sean McKittrick, Ted Hamm and Kelly himself are ...
- Remembering Tim Russert - Amherst Bee (subscription)
Remembering Tim RussertAmherst Bee (subscription), USA - 50 minutes agoRussert had an unbridled passion for the prose and poetry of American politics, but he also had a burning desire to never forget where he came from. ...
- Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (12:33 p.m.) A convicted sex offender has admitted he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck.
- New Underwood celebrates 100 years (Rapid City Journal)
NEW UNDERWOOD -- From his perch behind the town's community center, New Underwood school president David Flint can point to the house where he grew up. He has more to say, but with a splash, he falls into the dunk tank that will keep him soaking wet for the next few hours.
- Must-visit Belum - Malaysia Star
Must-visit BelumMalaysia Star, Malaysia - Jul 18, 2008It was sad to have to leave. I’m thankful to my friend for taking me along. And to think it’s only an hour away from home! We tend to believe the grass is ...
- No Shushing in This Library - San Diego Reader
No Shushing in This LibrarySan Diego Reader, CA - 1 hour agoA bulletin board reminds us that it’s the Year of the Rat or National Poetry Month. We don’t have art like the new libraries, which have benefited from the ...
- From Russia with gold - NBC Olympics
Watch all four of Nastia Liukin's routines from the women's all-around final. Nastia Liukin , a Russian-born American gymnast of exquisite grace and beauty, on Friday won the women's individual all-around competition, a triumph that served as an ...
- May 2006 - Weekly Standard
(The Euston group formally launched on May 26 in London. Several members have also written op-eds -- see here -- as part of the roll out. Norman Geras, a government professor at the University of Manchester, has been particularly insightful ...
- 2 speakers compete at national tourney - Sharon Herald
Two Mercer High School speech team members competed last week at the 2008 National Forensic League National Tournament. The weeklong event, “Desert Lights Nationals,†was held June 13 through 18 in Las Vegas. More than 3,300 contestants and 1,800 ...
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- Downturns spur an abundance of riches in arts (Chicago Tribune)
Economic slump spurs riches in the arts J ob insecurity, high gas prices, intimations of scarcity in the American land of plenty.
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