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- Who's bard? Burns poetry fans shocked by Jackson reports (BBC News)
Experts on Rabbie Burns react to reports that Michael Jackson has put the Scots Bard's work to music.
- How and Why Tony Soprano Died - Gawker
GawkerHow and Why Tony Soprano DiedGawker, NY - 2 hours agoNo, not Philip Larkin's poetry, the last frame of the last episode of the HBO mafia drama The Sopranos. Some enterprising blogger went all Warren Commission ...
- AP Lies About Obama’s Red Mentor - Canada Free Press
Canada Free PressAP Lies About Obama’s Red MentorCanada Free Press, Canada - Aug 5, 2008Davis “published several volumes of poetry,†AP said, failing to note that they include poems praising the Soviet Red Army and mocking Christian ...
- Back to The Future - The Moscow Times
Back to The FutureThe Moscow Times, Russia - 46 minutes agoIt spread across the arts from drama to poetry, painting and sculpture. In Russia, where the movement began to gain a foothold in 1912, it was led by some ...
- Edinburgh, open city (The New Statesman)
Every August, the Scottish capital plays host to the world's biggest season of arts events. Here, NS critics preview their highlights of this year's festival
- News Celebration of life (Haleakala Times)
On the island of Maui, there are many vibrant, independent women living life to its fullest. When given a diagnosis of breast cancer, these amazing women will face challenges – from basic needs like transportation to more complex and emotional upheavals like choosing a wig or prosthesis.
- Memoirs (Washington Post)
Harry Bernstein's first critical success came with his memoir The Invisible Wall , published two years ago when he was 96. It described his upbringing in an impoverished Lancashire town, where the Jews lived on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Though he'd been a writer all his...
- The fear is constant but resolve remains in Zimbabwe - Times Online
Bread disappeared on Monday. It has happened before, only to turn up on the shelves again a few days later, though this time things look different. “No flour,†the young woman behind the counter said with an air of finality. We live in a country ...
- Program sends students on upward path - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
WORCESTER— Alexandria Zagalskaya reminisced about coming to America from Russia two years ago with her children and trying to find programs for her son, Anton Pashyk. Camps cost a fortune and she didn’t want her son’s talents and drive to go to ...
- Mumbai mélange - Daily News and Analysis
There is a clamouring din out there, many voices are shrilling, the blind groping the elephant are confusing it with its tail or trunk. City-specific perspectives can make an interesting collage as never-before angles loom to the fore, dark corners ...
- For the Palestinians, the death of the people's poet - San Francisco Gate
Members of a Palestinian honor guard carried the coffin of the deceased Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish during his funeral today in the West Bank city of Ramallah "Around 10,000 people joined the procession that took his coffin, draped in a ...
- Ardent theater volunteer plays leading role in community arts - Charleston Gazette
Ardent theater volunteer plays leading role in community artsCharleston Gazette, WV - 53 minutes agoMy mother loved poetry and music. She got her GED after I was in school. She did everything she could to teach herself. "I started doing theater in my ...
- Raising animal awareness among children (Times of Malta)
Children attending Skolasajf taking part in a entertaining programme of dance, drama and poetry at St Paul's Bay Primary School to celebrate Animal Awareness Day.
- This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent lives - Guardian Unlimited
A student downloads an al-Qaida document from a US government website and is held in custody for six days. A shop assistant writes poems about cutting people's heads off and is tried for being a terrorist. An opera composer is accused of promoting ...
- Poetic death of language barriers - Scotland on Sunday Online
I'VE enjoyed many memorable moments at the Edinburgh Book Festival, but one in particular sticks in mind. One d ay my attention was drawn to a lean, hawk-nosed figure, talking animatedly. A wasp flew into his mouth mid-sentence. Not missing a beat ...
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