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- Foregoing black tie for white formal fetches plenty (Vancouver Sun)
BLANC CHEQUES: Chairing the Heart & Stroke Foundation's Heart of Gold gala recently, Jackie Bevis and Janice Ketcham urged 400 attendees to deep-six their ubiquitous black ensembles and "dress formal white." So-coloured couture can challenge some figures, but the bottom line that counted was pure green. The do took in a reported $410,000, bringing Bevis and Ketcham's three-year delivery to H&SF ...
- Defecting to and from Soviet Russia (World Tribune)
After WW2 and up to Stalin’s death, in 1953, and his posthumous “dethronement, Communists accounted for almost one-quarter of voters in France and one-third of voters in Italy. For the English-speaking countries, such percentages were fantastically high.
- Annual journal puts focus on state's humor writers (The Daily Reflector)
The 2008 North Carolina Literary Review showcases work by some of the state's best writers on the topic of humor.
- Community briefs 6/25 - Daily News Tribune
Community briefs 6/25Daily News Tribune, MA - 4 hours agoHer life is recreated with liberal excerpts from her poetry and the voices of Dickinson and her circle. Sponsored by the Friends of the Waltham Public ...
- City seeks to honor Griffin with a party — or several - Buffalo News
Jimmy Griffin loved a good party, and Common Council members think they’ve found the perfect way to honor the late mayor, who held Buffalo’s top office for a record-shattering 16 years. A bill, championed by a majority of lawmakers, that would ...
- Cover Story - Egypt Today
“I worked in an almost arid land. I had to discover by myself, and I also had to pave [this land],” the novelist and editor Gamal El-Ghitani quotes Mahfouz as saying in his book Al-Magalis Al-Mahfouziyya (Mahfouz’s Gatherings). At the age of 25 ...
- Bonnaroo 2008: Attendees endured show delays, hot weather and rain ... - Independent Florida Alligator
One after another, cars poured out of the Wal–Mart parking lot in the quaint town of Manchester, Tenn. Thursday morning. Some of their inhabitants had been sleeping there all night while others stayed awake with anticipation playing the tunes of ...
- The judges lose the plot (again) - Spectator.co.uk (subscription)
Spectator.co.uk (subscription)The judges lose the plot (again)Spectator.co.uk (subscription), UK - 55 minutes agoAs her misleading soubriquet implies, it was put about at the time of her conviction that Malik had been prosecuted for writing poetry whose ideas were now ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldAxe victim escaped 'rage' of SydneySydney Morning Herald, Australia - 3 hours ago... playing in the police band and also writing poems, one which was published in a book by the International Library of Poetry titled The Liquid Mirror. ...
- 2008 'Florida Book Awards' competition begins with call for entries - Herald Tribune
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Book Awards has kicked off its third annual competition with a call for entries in eight categories, including a new one for “Book Design.” Established in 2006 and now the most comprehensive state book awards ...
- Sr. Business Applications Analyst - Seattle Times
Sr. Business Applications AnalystSeattle Times, United States - 37 minutes agoThey're about the revolution of rock 'n roll, the humanity of science fiction, and the poetry of a fingertip catch. They're about reaching from the tiniest ...
- The Numbers on Teen Pregnancy - New York Times Blogs
It is amazing to me that in the several days after it was announced that the second-ever woman was nominated for a major-party vice-president slot, so much of the news has concerned her and her daughter’s reproductive activities. Part of the reason ...
- Kazi Nazrul Islam : The poet of the world - New Nation
Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.' Nazrul's genius beside Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941] like a comet brought about a new era of revolution in Bengali literature swaying the British imperialistic colonial rule so vehemently that his ...
- A National Dog Adoption Event so Exciting that Even "Socks", the ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)A National Dog Adoption Event so Exciting that Even "Socks", the ...PR Web (press release), WA - 58 minutes ago... Celebrities & Interesting Personalities and the 2008 FURocious Concert featuring animal welfare conscious performances by Stop Motion Poetry and Stacy ...
- Ivy Bean There, Done That, at 103 - OhmyNews
After a lifetime of obscurity, this British great-grandmother, Ivy Bean, who will be 103 on Sept. 8, has rocketed to world fame. Why? Because friends at her care home in Bradford, Yorkshire, set up a group called "Oldest person on Facebook" and ...
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