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- VIDEO: Olympic medal joy for Scots canoeist (The Herald)
David Florence became the first Scot to win a medal at the Beijing Olympics yesterday, as he took silver in the canoe slalom. His Edinburgh-based parents said last night they were delighted by his win - and revealed he had recently applied to be an astronaut.
- No logo - New Statesman
New StatesmanNo logoNew Statesman, UK - 2 hours agoI was commissioned during a residency as the Poetry Society's Public Art Poet to create a poem in the underpass at Waterloo Station that leads to the Imax ...
- Cultural vibrations - ChesterChronicle.co.uk
Cultural vibrationsChesterChronicle.co.uk, UK - Aug 15, 2008The festival will play host to many famous artists on the Welsh and international folk music, dance and poetry scenes. Tegeingl takes its name from the ...
- An Honest Conversation About Alcohol - Inside Higher Ed
Two months after he finished up as president of Middlebury College in 2004, John M. McCardell Jr. wrote a column for The New York Times called “What Your College President Didn’t Tell You.†In the piece, he discussed how he was “as guilty as ...
- Laughing Communism to death - Daily Telegraph
"Jokes were Eastern Europe's jazz, the music of the oppressed," Ben Lewis observes. But did they contribute significantly to the collapse of the Communist system? Lewis thinks so, and has travelled extensively in eastern Europe to prove it ...
- A portrait of the author - Buffalo News
A portrait of the authorBuffalo News, United States - 39 minutes agoNine family portraits that belonged to James Joyce, including two of the literary giant himself, have been restored by Buffalo State College art ...
- Successful month for Greenethorpe Public School - Grenfell Record and Bland Advertiser
Successful month for Greenethorpe Public SchoolGrenfell Record and Bland Advertiser, Australia - 2 hours agoThe Henry Lawson Festival - As a part of The Henry Lawson Festival, nine students from Greenethorpe Public School will compete in the Poetry Recitation Day. ...
- In Years Past - Jamestown Post Journal
In Years PastJamestown Post Journal, NY - 2 hours ago''The residency of WD Snodgrass on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution is a treat for readers and lifelong students of serious poetry. ...
- Festival to celebrate RS Thomas - BBC News
BBC NewsFestival to celebrate RS ThomasBBC News, UK - 3 hours agoA church where the late RS Thomas once preached is holding a poetry festival in his honour. As part of the event at St Michael's Church, Eglwysfach, ...
- Lawyer of Week: John Burton - Times Online
Times OnlineLawyer of Week: John BurtonTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoIn the Samina Malik case, I made a speech on how poetry is intended to stir up emotions. I quoted from Wilfred Owen, stating that I was not saying she was ...
- Fulbright College Announces 2008 Sturgis Fellows - University of Arkansas Daily Headlines
Fulbright College Announces 2008 Sturgis FellowsUniversity of Arkansas Daily Headlines, AR - 3 hours agoShe has been a volunteer for focus groups on teen health and served as a tutor for Building Bright Futures. She hopes to pursue service work in Kenya and ...
- "I received calls from people interested in my new business within ... - MediaSyndicate (press release)
"I received calls from people interested in my new business within ...MediaSyndicate (press release) - 13 minutes agoOver 30 authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children and young adults books will attend this year's festival in historic downtown Fernandina Beach on ...
- Sex and drugs and blank verse (Hindustan Times)
The Genealogy of the Beats goes right back to the Romantics, with their "falling and dying" and funereal odes to creatures with wings.
- Nigeria: Thisday Music & Fashion Festival (AllAfrica.com)
For the third year running, THISDAY Newspapers, one of the leading newspapers in Nigeria has brought Nigeria close to the world through its annual music festival, which is today, adjudged the best in the African Continent.
- Religious Briefs (Chico Enterprise-Record)
Church sets youth 'Summer Slam' The youth group at First Assembly of God of Chico, Adrenaline, invites young people ages 12 to 18 to attend a "Summer Slam" from 6 to 9 p.
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