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- Goodison, Gowdy shortlisted for Trillium award (Toronto Star)
Lorna Goodison’s family memoir From Harvey River, which was in the running for this year’s Charles Taylor Prize, and Barbara Gowdy’s novel Helpless, a Governor General’s Award nominee from last year, have been shortlisted for Ontario’s $20,000 Trillium Book Award.
- Model's suicide shocks boyfriend - New York Daily News
Ex-boyfriend Artem Perchenok pays his respects to supermodel Ruslana Korshunova, who took her own life on Saturday. Korshunova moved in with boyfriend Mark Kaminsky two days after meeting the luxury car importer in March but spent her last night with ...
- Mom accepts transgender Manchester tween (The Nashua Telegraph)
MANCHESTER -- In the first grade, 6-year-old Nicholas stood up one day and told his teacher he had something important to say. Not just to her. But to the whole class. ... - By ASHLEY SMITH Staff Writer
- The beauty of Islam (The Kansas City Star)
Several readers of last week’s column asked why I called Islam “incredibly beautiful.” Based on decades of study, world travel and long friendships with Muslims, I answer with three hints.
- Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' - CNBC
It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the TODAY show and soon faces a second ...
- YO! Poetry -- Halo Ape Godo at City Lights (New America Media)
Robin Black, otherwise known as Halo Ape Godo, talks about his love for poetry and hip hop and drops some verbal game after a performance at the historic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - The Associated Press
The Associated PressFormer AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton diesThe Associated Press - 2 hours agoHe retired months later, listening to jazz and writing poetry until the end. He penned several books, including "And When the Weeds Began to Grow," and his ...
- Forward.com (Forward)
This September, residents of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the cradle of Yiddish culture in America, will be able to choose between not one but two Yiddish-speaking candidates for political office.
- Carla Bruni on music, love and Sarkozy - Times Online
Carla Bruni on music, love and SarkozyTimes Online, UK - 26 minutes agoThe British are very special: you can see it in their art, their films, their poetry. For example, the protocol of the royal family is fantastic – it’s very ...
- 'I don't make things easy' - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk'I don't make things easy'guardian.co.uk, UK - 54 minutes agoWithin three months she had amassed enough songs to fill an album; the engineer at the studio played them to a friend who ran a small record label in Oxford ...
- Don Imus in hot water again; Rikki Rocket isn't, and he's celebrating ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Don Imus is dining on toes again after his latest "open mouth, insert foot" moment. Oops, he did it again. Don Imus, who apparently loves nothing more than a beatdown from Rev. Al Sharpton, drew another one Monday by wondering on the air about the ...
- Searching for peace in silence (Honolulu Advertiser)
I couldn't resist Desiderata's invitation to "go placidly amidst the noise and haste and remember what peace there is in silence."
- School's end weighs on parents (San Diego Union-Tribune)
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys “won” (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a workday.
- Love's labor’s lost in post-invasion Iraq - Middle East Online
As statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have been. This is the land of the Arabian Nights ...
- Cleveland Museum of Art says no deal yet on return of objects to Italy ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Italy sent conflicting signals Friday about whether it had reached an agreement with the Cleveland Museum of Art over returning ancient works of art the country believes were looted. The Associated Press reported that the Italian Culture Ministry in ...
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