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- HUMPHREY GAVE GREATEST CONVENTION SPEECH YOU'VE NEVER HEARD (David Shribman via Yahoo! News)
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium on Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F. Kennedy. The last important speech to be delivered on an Aug. 28 was given by the Rev. Martin Luther King 45 years ago.
- Listening to Global Voices - NHPR
listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf). Our main goal on Word of Mouth is to try to find the stories that you may not get to hear anywhere else – to capture and curate the bits of information that zip around the Internet every day ...
- Crystal Arc brings you a unique calligraphy exhibition to take you ... - Eye of Dubai (press release)
Eye of Dubai (press release)Crystal Arc brings you a unique calligraphy exhibition to take you ...Eye of Dubai (press release), United Arab Emirates - 1 hour ago... of this creative and inspirational exhibition and to partner with Dubai Cultural and Scientific Association which is bringing about the art of poetry in ...
- Jan Kopischke (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
About Jan:  She and her husband, Tim, live in Hammond and have two children, Brian and Kevin. Bachelor's degree in English education from Governors State University. Employed by Luther East High School in Lansing. Member of Christ Lutheran Church in Hammond. Enjoys sewing and vegetable gardening.
- Local Talent Wins Going West Poetry Slam - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Local Talent Wins Going West Poetry SlamScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 28 minutes agoCourtney secured her spot in the final with her poem ‘Auckland’s Talking About Me’, then won the $500 prize with ‘86’. The fifth annual Going West Poetry ...
- Thursday practice report: Day 1 - Chopping Block
Thursday practice report: Day 1Chopping Block, FL - 8 minutes agoHe told me that he and several other members of the team stood on their desks during a film session and recently recited lines of poetry to Bobby Bowden. ...
- Favourite book is named - Loughborough News
Favourite book is namedLoughborough News, UK - 40 minutes agoThe National Year of Reading in Leicester will continue with a range of events and promotions, including author visits, poetry readings and graphic novel ...
- Kimya Dawson Plays Harlem Tonight, Speaks About Songs and Stuff - Nypress.com
A couple weeks ago singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson played at the Music Hall of Williamsburg . During the show, I stepped outside with my friend as a gaggle of 17-year-old kids came out to smoke. We had seen them earlier when a drunken hula-hooping ...
- Rapunzel - Poems by doctors - British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription)
Rapunzel - Poems by doctorsBritish Journal of Psychiatry (subscription), UK - 10 hours agoHis poetry has been published in numerous literary and medical journals. Among others, these include JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Emergency ...
- Novel idea unveiled to create literary quarter on Royal Mile - Scotsman
Novel idea unveiled to create literary quarter on Royal MileScotsman, United Kingdom - 10 hours agoOther organisations involved would include the Scottish Poetry Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Writers' Museum and Canongate Books. ...
- Worldly wise Biden full of candor, zeal - Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON -- Few people know the world like Joe Biden. The 65-year-old chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee returned recently from a visit to the Republic of Georgia to assess the Russian invasion there. He has visited Iraq more than ...
- Quebe Sisters Band brings old sounds to Tin Cup Tea (Reno Gazette-Journal)
On Saturday, a band of sisters from Texas will bring a sound that most people these days associate with scratchy old records and vintage USO footage.
- Alum's Passion for Poetry Pays Off - Bates Student
Alum's Passion for Poetry Pays OffBates Student, ME - 48 minutes agoWorking as a book critic for Publisher's Weekly, he enjoys a well-connected literary lifestyle, makes poetry one of his top priorities and recognizes that ...
- Senior citizens pursuing education from home - MSNBC
Kathy Leeds poses for a portrait at her apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 in New York. Leeds is one of about 500 people enrolled in a telephone-based educational program for homebound seniors called University ...
- Jidariyya, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (Independent)
The words "Live your days not your dreams" take on an additional poignancy in Jidariyya ("the mural"), a meditation on life, language and death by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died from complications after heart surgery earlier this month. Darwish wrote his 100-page poem when he almost died from a heart attack in 1999.
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