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- Child soldier trades gun for beats - MediaGlobal
MediaGlobalChild soldier trades gun for beatsMediaGlobal, NY - 18 minutes ago“I liked it because it reminded me of how people used to talk poetry and rap in my village when I was small,†Jal recalled of his first encounter with the ...
- Reviled poet's work to fetch high price at auction - guardian.co.uk
Reviled poet's work to fetch high price at auctionguardian.co.uk, UK - May 16, 2008As an indication of just how far his stock has risen in the years since his death, the anticipated price may be compared to the £4800 paid for a full, ...
- Pride and prejudice: In praise of Britain's colonial artists (Independent)
I flew over to the USA in March this year, for the first time since September 11. An indefinable fear combined with fury over Iraq had kept me away for too long. The launch of the new American Empire, as morally corrupt as the old European hegemony, required severance of connections for a while, a self-imposed banishment.
- traditional celebration of Olympic Day (Olympic Committee News)
inaugurated the brand new IOC multi-purpose centre, known as “Le Pavillonâ€, in the presence of Swiss Federal Councillor Samuel Schmid, Head of the Federal Department of Defence, Protection of the Population and Sports; Jean-Claude Mermoud, State Councillor of the Canton of Vaud; Daniel Brélaz, Mayor of Lausanne; and many personalities from the sports world as well as members of the IOC Executive ...
- Fluxus Scores and Instructions - E-Flux
Fluxus Scores and InstructionsE-Flux, NY - 1 hour ago... brutalism, Dada/ism, concretism, Lettrism, nihilism, indeterminacy—Theatre, happenings, prose, poetry, philosophy, plastic arts, music, cinema, dance. ...
- ACRAG honours Artistes - The Statesman Online
ACRAG honours ArtistesThe Statesman Online, Ghana - 10 hours agoThose recognized this year under the Cultural Ambassador designation were George Dzikunu for Dance, Kofi Ansah - Fashion Design, Kwesi Owusu Poetry and ...
- Free tour is just the ticket at Kennedy Center (Contra Costa Times)
Free daily tours of the center go great with the free Millennium Stage shows daily at 6 p.m.
- Paula Abdul left 'empty' by `American Idol' song that wasn't - Cleveland Plain Dealer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Paula Abdul must be hearing double. On a night when "American Idol" switched up the judges' format by making them hold their appraisals until every contestant had a turn, Abdul offered feedback Tuesday for two songs by Jason ...
- Glencairn Balfour Paul: Diplomat, scholar and poet with a lifelong love of the Middle East (Independent)
Glencairn Balfour Paul was a soldier, diplomat, traveller, explorer, scholar and poet, and excelled in all these diverse careers and vocations. Above all this floated an original dream of becoming an archaeologist, a dream which had to be abandoned because of family responsibilities. In the field of diplomacy, for which he was best known, he served in the Sudan Political Service and in Chile, ...
- A low hum of horror pervades this exposé of US abuses in Afghanistan - New Statesman
New StatesmanA low hum of horror pervades this exposé of US abuses in AfghanistanNew Statesman, UK - 5 hours agoEven now it gives me a jolt to hear about "extraordinary rendition", which could still refer to an audacious cover version or poetry recital. ...
- O'Really? (Salon.com)
The latest comments from Bill O'Reilly that make us want to vomit on ourselves.
- Hannon Hoping For Super Gift (Sporting Life via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)
Penny's Gift dominates the market for Saturday's Weatherbys Super Sprint.
- Escape from Sydney 'rage' (Sydney Morning Herald)
Policewoman whose children died in axe attack wrote of escaping the "rage" of Sydney.
- Verdict: Lesbian not just from Lesbos - MSNBC
Greek-American Paul Thymou, resident of the Aegean island of Lesbos, holds a banner reading: "If you are not from Lesbos, you are not a Lesbian," outside of an Athens courthouse on on June 10. July 22: As Portuguese authorities close the case on the ...
- Verses – Mandy Lagan - eJazzNews
Verses – Mandy LaganeJazzNews, Canada - 5 hours agoAll those who remember A Child’s Garden of Verses, raise your hand. The influential collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson has been a favourite of ...
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