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- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- Portsmouth news briefs (Portsmouth Herald)
Part of Pleasant Street near Market Square will be closed for the next two Saturday evenings (July 12 and 19) from 5 to 10 p.m. for Pro Portsmouth's Summer in the Street downtown music program. No vehicular traffic or parking is allowed on Pleasant...
- Keeper of poetic justice - The News - International
Keeper of poetic justiceThe News - International, Pakistan - 1 hour agoSometimes, he uses his nick as Mastana (insane) in his poetry. He has written thousands of Urdu and Punjabi poems. Originally from Chakwal, Punjab, ...
- Report: Taliban media network projects power, but also exposes militant weaknesses (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Using everything from Internet postings to poetry, the Taliban have created a sophisticated media network that undermines support for the Afghan government by projecting the militia's power as greater than it really is, a new report says.
- Brent Cunningham - Publishers Weekly
Brent CunninghamPublishers Weekly, NY - 1 hour agoCunningham may be the only person in American publishing who can say, “Poetry is 60% of what we carry.†The other 40% of SPD's books are split fairly evenly ...
- Cillian's second child + more Edge reviews - CillianSite
CillianSiteCillian's second child + more Edge reviewsCillianSite, CA - 2 hours agoAs long as you don't mind Dylan Thomas and his poetry taking a bit of a back seat, you will happily drift through a slick, well shot, competently-acted ...
- Love, loss loom in 'Dangerous Age' - News & Observer
Love, loss loom in 'Dangerous Age'News & Observer, NC - 1 hour ago"A Dangerous Age" is Gilchrist's 20th book of fiction (she has also written poetry, a book of nonfiction commentaries and a memoir), and her characters and ...
- Sometimes, the obvious needs to be restated - New Straits Times
Sometimes, the obvious needs to be restatedNew Straits Times, Malaysia - 37 minutes agoThey would have called it elitist; a Harvard man quoting ancient Greek poetry. But even they would not be able to deny the effect that it had. ...
- Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism - New York Sun
Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New CriticismNew York Sun, United States - 2 hours ago... what modern poetry had become: an art that, in Tate's words, "demands ... in its writing and in its reading all the intellectual power that we have. ...
- Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley High (Berkeley Daily Planet)
Tucked inside every diploma of the Berkeley High School graduating class of 2008 is a voter registration card, something principal Jim Slemp didn’t forget to point out amidst all the exhortation, advice and pranks at the Greek Theater on Friday.
- Guest commentary: Local poets inspired by spring (The Sacramento Bee)
My favorite phrase about spring is Shakespeare's "the darling buds of May." Those words speak of spring in a way that makes me look forward eagerly to the season. I want to rush outside to see flowers blooming in a riot of color, trees bursting into leaf, sun warming but not burning. Cleo Fellers Kocol
- Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (Payvand Iran News)
Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Belonging, edited by Niloufar Talebi, offers a glimpse at a complex culture through some of its finest literary talents.
- Senior Center awarded $25,816 - Mansfield News Journal
The Ohio Department of Transportation awarded Lexington Senior Civic Center, 67 E. Main St., a $25,816 grant as part of its Specialized Transportation Program. The program distributes $3.7 million in federal transportation dollars to 85 agencies in ...
- Flood Middle School students turn out to honor and remember their ... - TriVallyCentral
Last Wednesday afternoon was a very beautiful one. A light breeze blew in from the east, and the sun shone brightly in a bright blue sky. But, for a certain school, it was also a very sad afternoon too. It was a day where all of Flood Middle School's ...
- Williams clash in seventh grand slam - Melbourne Herald Sun
Williams clash in seventh grand slamMelbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 8 hours agoShe has a thing for poetry and art and Asian antiques. She is also an avid reader. Venus also retains ambitions in choreography and music. ...
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