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- Downturn affects the traditionally self-sufficient - Herald Tribune
The death of her husband, a World War II veteran, two years ago started a chain of events that pushed Kleiss, 67, into a financial crisis. It culminated with the loss of her job in February, just before she saw a spike in her flood insurance. Unable ...
- Ready for the world: CSU-Monterey Bay graduates 12th class (The Monterey County Herald)
The one-time chief of staff to President Clinton, former Rep.
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (The Chronicle)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- So how many ways to love an MP? One backbencher's raunchy Shakespeare sonnets cause a stir (Daily Mail)
Watching Gordon Brown's ratings tumble ever lower is enough to depress any Labour MP. But veteran backbencher Harry Cohen has found a novel way to restore his spirits: penning raunchy poetry.
- David Lister: The Week in Arts - The Independent
There is an illness that afflicts leading lights in the arts, an illness that you rarely encounter elsewhere. I call it "cultural paranoia". It involves major celebrities taking popular and populist stances, and then convincing themselves that they ...
- Remembering Josh: Friends gather to honor young Bluffton car-crash victim (Island Packet)
Cindy Sprouse, a teacher and friend of Josh George, didn't know much about the 17-year-old junior when she met him.
- Al-Ghafori celebrates his new novel - Yemen Observer
Kod blue is the new novel by the Yemeni author Murwan al-Ghafori and was published recently. This is the third novel for al-Gahfori, yet his first published work. The novel comes with great praise as it recently won the Naji Noman Prize for ...
- New Poetry Collection Launching This Weekend (Scoop.co.nz)
In Continents by Otago poet Richard Reeve will be launched during Invercargill’s May Arts Month Festival.
- Artistic Amalgamation - Pune Newsline
Artistic AmalgamationPune Newsline, India - 5 hours agoAn ardent lover of Tagore's poetry, Soto tries to encompass each and every facet of ingenuity with different cultural nuances blending a rich as well as a ...
- Upshaw's silvery voice'Was Here' - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comUpshaw's silvery voice'Was Here'The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - May 12, 2008The composer's description of the poetry's "somber abstractions" is apt for the music: "an art where all the elements are so intimately bound up that one ...
- Ali museum offers trip down memory lane - Frederick News-Post
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN fascinated by Muhammad Ali. It goes back to the 1960s when he said he was 'The Greatest' and then proved it by shocking everyone when he decked the supposedly unbeatable Sonny Liston in 1964 to win the heavyweight title. So when I ...
- 'Girls Like Us' links lives of 3 singers - Chicago Tribune
Sisterhood—in the family and body politic—can be a beautiful abstraction and a real pain in the neck. It's an evanescent ideal that sometimes takes shape in historic movements. And it's the cosmic force behind Sheila Weller as she tries to link ...
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Goodbye to Berlin (Independent)
Paul Verhaeghen has won this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel Omega Minor, published by Dalkey Archive Press. His victory with this exuberant, pyrotechnic, toweringly ambitious epic is a suitably mould-breaking event. To begin with, the Belgian-born cognitive psychologist translated his own work into English from the Dutch. (He has taught in the US since 1997, and is ...
- John Lundberg: Jack White's Poetic Apology (HuffingtonPost)
This wasn't your everyday means of damage control -- trying to appease angry denizens of Detroit with a poem seems doomed to failure -- but it earned White Stripes rocker Jack White a lot of local press.
- Two UW-Madison profs among 7 new Wisconsin Academy Fellows - The Capital Times
Two UW-Madison profs among 7 new Wisconsin Academy FellowsThe Capital Times, WI - 41 minutes agoThey must also have a career marked by an unusually high order of discovery; technological accomplishments; creative productivity in literature, poetry, ...
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