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- Report of the Secretary-General - UN News Centre
The present report is submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 60/209, in which the Assembly welcomed the observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and requested the Secretary-General to undertake a review of the ...
- Jon Vickers - Guardian Unlimited
Amid such legendary trade union leaders of the 1970s as Jack Jones, Hugh Scanlon and Joe Gormley, the Cambridge-educated Jon Vickers, of the Civil Service Union, who has died aged 92, cast a smaller shadow. But his wartime bravery and politically ...
- Raising Ezra - Boise Weekly
Raising EzraBoise Weekly, USA - 26 minutes agoPound set out to change not only the world of poetry, but the world of banking and finance as well. His plan to eliminate debt by taking control of credit ...
- Davidson Calendar: July 11-20, 2008 - Nashville Tennessean
Music in the Grand Lobby — Godwin Thompson Duo: Performance by this jazz guitar duo. 6-9 p.m. July 11, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 919 Broadway; free; 244-3340. Cremona Strings Ensemble Too: The performance includes classical, jazz, pop and ...
- It's only verse 'n' rhymes, but pop festivals like it - The Observer
It's only verse 'n' rhymes, but pop festivals like itThe Observer, UK - 7 hours ago... held next month near the Suffolk village of Southwold, while Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Adrian Mitchell will top the festival's poetry bill. ...
- A Bronx Tale (The New York Sun)
Many a highbrow raised a brow high last year when the critic Clive James, in his book "Cultural Amnesia," included just three movie actors among his selections of the most significant cultural figures of the century. They were Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and ... Tony Curtis. That's right. Not Brando or Olivier or even John Wayne, but the Jewish kid from the Bronx, Bernie Schwartz — the guy who ...
- SENA - Ghana, Hungary, and music that bridges - Ghana Music.com
SENA - Ghana, Hungary, and music that bridgesGhana Music.com, Ghana - 36 minutes agoSince the days of kindergarten, I was involved in something to do with the stage, be it poetry recital, dancing, acting or singing. ...
- Segwaying across America and hyper-mileage: It's New on the Net - Cleveland Plain Dealer
When the Segway Personal Transporter was unveiled more than six years ago, the economical and environmentally friendly two-wheeler promised to revolutionize short-distance travel. It didn't -- not yet, anyway -- but maybe it should. Two self ...
- Hillary's God - Front Page
Contrary to plans, Hillary Clinton will not be coronated this week as her party’s presidential nominee. But she will almost certainly remain an active star in America’s political constellation for many more years. Even if she never again seeks ...
- Lord Tweedsmuir: Novelist and son of John Buchan who inherited his ... - The Independent
If all John Buchan's children had it hard, his second son, William, had it hardest. Endowed with his father's literary talent, he yet could not hope to match John Buchan in his other occupations of strategy, high policy, business, sport, action ...
- Poetry isn't in the cards - Denver Post
For more than a century, nothing but nothing has brought out the shameless sentiment in writers like baseball. Everyone from George Bernard Shaw to Red Smith has taken a swing at distilling the romantic essence of the game into words.
- Michael D. Curry, 29, did not let disease derail his artistic dreams - Orlando Sentinel
Michael D. Curry, 29, did not let disease derail his artistic dreamsOrlando Sentinel, FL - 3 hours agoAnd he also loved to write and read poetry." Carina Secor, admissions representative at Full Sail, said that if actions define a person, Curry is one who ...
- Dylan's New York (BBC News)
On a literary pub crawl of poet's old haunts
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish (Middle East Times)
Family and friends of late Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish mourn outside his family house in the Arab village of Jadaida in northern Israel on August 11. Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral for Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- On the trail of the churros: Students examine influence of sheep on ... - Farmington Daily Times
BLOOMFIELD — A group of select students from Mesa Alta Junior High School learned about culture, writing and personal growth from an unlikely source this summer — sheep.
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