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- Scott champion heads to national spelling bee (Knoxville News Sentinel)
WASHINGTON - Lillie Young figured out pretty early that she had a talent for spelling difficult words when she entered a classroom spelling bee in the first grade and won.
- The death of grand poetry? - Al-Ahram Weekly
Commemorating the anniversaries of the deaths of two great Arab poets, Mona Anis investigates the contemporary role of the poet Literary circles in the Arab world last week commemorated the tenth anniversary of the death of the Syrian poet Nizar ...
- Sheikh-down cruise: Italian line sails Arabian peninsula from Dubai (Miami Herald)
I stared for a time at the museum-case model that portrayed early Abu Dhabi as a sandy flat with a loose scattering of mud huts, on which the most sophisticated architectural feature were the goat pens. I half expected to see tiny figures swinging crude stone tools.
- Winners Announced for First-Ever AFL-CIO Online Video Competition - CNBC
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Videos take creative, edgy look at what's wrong with America and suggestions for change www.turnaroundvideocontest.com Today, the AFL-CIO announced the winners of the "Turn Around ...
- Quebec: A Canadian Occasion - TIME
Quebec: A Canadian OccasionTIME - 2 hours agoIf you come for the birthday party, stay for the city's charms. Within Old Quebec — a UNESCO World Heritage Site inside the walls of the city's old ...
- U. Houston professor receives award for poetry - U-Wire.com
Poet, essayist and University of Houston English professor Tony Hoagland received the Jackson Poetry Prize in April. The award recognizes talented writers of lesser fame and boasts national exposure as well as $50,000. UH Creative Writing Program ...
- 05-06-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
NEWSWEEK PROBES OPRAH'S BREAK FROM TRINITY: 'A major reason—but by no means the only reason—was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.' *Oprah Winfrey was a regular member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ from 1984-1986, and attended periodically into the mid-1990s.
- Bobby recalled (BBC News)
The life of Robert Kennedy, 40 years on
- Sixth-graders paint roses red at reading - Record-Courier
Meneley Elementary School student Angela Solano claps for a classmate during the poetry reading at Pony Espresso on May 9. The walls shook with the thunder of poet-warriors. Mere sixth-graders were transformed into living gods as with the tongues of ...
- 'An incredible presence in American literature' - Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Saturday will mark the fourth time the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters has honored author Ellen Douglas. This time, it's a crowning touch - Lifetime Achievement for the writer who spent her lifetime in her home state, mining its people and ...
- Prodigy at 20, Dead at 31, Kapell's Genius Survives on New Set - Bloomberg
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- By 1953, 31-year-old William Kapell owned the world. A pianist of prodigious gifts in both fingers and brain power, handsome and happily married, his fame seemed without limit. That year he had added Australia to his realm ...
- Salman Rushdie: Knight of the Tall Tale - New York Sun
'The Enchantress of Florence" (Random House, 368 pages, $26) is a "Harry Potter"-ish restoration project of great intelligence and remarkable egoism, both of which are characteristic of its author. Although he sets his novel in the Florence of the ...
- Summer reading program - Bradenton Herald
Summer reading programBradenton Herald, United States - 5 hours agoStories read aloud are complemented by audience participation, creative dramatics, poetry, puppetry, songs and music, jokes and riddles, games or crafts, ...
- Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book Award (CBC)
Barbara Gowdy is one of the newest winners of Ontario's Trillium Book Awards, announced at a midday ceremony in Toronto Thursday.
- Visit Ireland, learn about family - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Visit Ireland, learn about familyMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 1 hour agoHe won the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize for his book, "The Boatloads;" the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition for "Charon's ...
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