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- Music can be path to language and math - International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON : The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making school fun. Michael Bitz won a national competition with his idea for ...
- 5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage DayPR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - Jun 18, 2008Although the creators of folk Spirituals are unknown, scholars suspect they were folk poets, Black preachers, and slave communities. ...
- Pictured: Astonishing crowds turn out for Obama rally as Democratic hopeful attacks McCain for lobbyist links (Daily Mail)
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was surrounded by a sea of supporters as he stepped up his bid to become America's first black president. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was surrounded by a sea of supporters as he stepped up his bid to become America's first black president
- What's On / Proms Plus - bbc
A new, expanded series of more than 70 introductions, interviews, workshops and other Proms-related events means that it is easier than ever to get to know the music and musicians featured during the season. Follow the coloured links for listings by ...
- No-Maddz 'seh' most at Weekenz - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerNo-Maddz 'seh' most at WeekenzJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 4 hours agoThe No-Maddz poetry group, Oneil Peart and Sheldon Shepherd performing with Everaldo Creary who was on acting duties that night, took the house down ...
- Out & About (Nanaimo Daily News)
The Kiltlifters perform live at the Queen's Hotel on May 15 at 10 p.m. with special guests the Sub City Dwellers.
- Wisdom went with the words at Native Son (Las Vegas Sun)
Fri, May 2, 2008 (2 a.m.) The first black senator in Nevada’s Legislature, corporals and coaches, the first black women in the fire departments of Clark County and Las Vegas, directors of programs to help gang members, engineers, no-hitter pitchers — they all learned something at Native Son.
- Opinions: Jabbarwocky: A haiku: adieu. (Stanford Daily)
shall we now haiku?
- The dangers of banality - Financial Times
R eporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, the political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evilâ€. Eichmann, responsible for the slaughter of millions of Jews, had the appearance and even the mentality ...
- Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place - Georgia Straight
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of PlaceGeorgia Straight, Canada - 1 hour agoNevertheless, despite this seeming discrepancy in rhetorical skills, all their recollections are equally eloquent, as if poetry were a kind of virus that ...
- "The Pearl": a nobleman defies social conventions (Seattle Times)
"The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia" by Douglas Smith is a love story between the richest nobleman in Imperial Russia and a young serf with a spellbinding operatic voice — the scribbler of a bodice-ripper romance novel could not ask for better stuff.
- Jean C. Soule, 89, children's author, educator - Philadelphia Daily News
Jean Conder Soule, 89, formerly of Springfield, Delaware County, a children's book author, poet, and educator, died of heart failure Sunday at Riddle Village, a retirement community in Media. While raising a family in Springfield, Mrs. Soule wrote ...
- Has crowd interaction gone too far? - Guardian Blogs
Been out to a gig recently? Hard work, isn't it? No, not the drinking, the late nights, nor the physical trauma of getting trapped stage-front at MBV's Roundhouse gigs , but this sudden pressure to "get involved". Crowd participation, once the ...
- Stemming flow of literary heritage across the pond (Guardian Unlimited)
The novelist Jim Crace looks remarkably chipper for a man of 62 who has just travelled through several time zones on his way home from California.
- (#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net) - ScienceBlogs
(#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net)ScienceBlogs - 2 hours agoStay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest. The introductory schtick to my talk at the Seattle Skeptics ...
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