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- Wheeling and dealing won out over higher calling - WA Business News (subscription)
Wheeling and dealing won out over higher callingWA Business News (subscription), Australia - 3 hours agoMachiavelli, like Mr Burke, was a diplomat; and, like Mr Burke, he wrote poetry. On becoming premier in 1983, Mr Burke may not have had the liquid assets of ...
- Edwards: The Agony of the MSM - Slate
Nibbling at the edges of the MSM: Imus laments that the Edwards L.C. story is "starting to become news." ... And there's always the late-night comics' rabbithhole into public consciousness . ... But the MSM wants photos Dallas Morning News' Rod ...
- 'Hamp rooming house owner declines to rebuild after fire - The Republican - MassLive.com
'Hamp rooming house owner declines to rebuild after fireThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 51 minutes agoThe tenant was supposed to read poetry but failed to show up, and Connor has not seen him since. Woicekoski and his family have met with city officials to ...
- Bulgaria Marks Day of Botev and Others Perished in the Fight for Independence (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria marks Monday the 132 anniversary of the death of one of the most prominent Bulgarians - the publicist, poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev, who gave his life for Bulgaria's independence.
- A Leader Turned Ghost - New York Times
A Leader Turned GhostNew York Times, United States - 8 hours agoAt the same time, he wrote and published his own poetry, hiring halls at the university for public readings of work that critics in Sarajevo tended to ...
- Remembering a fallen soldier - Star-Press
(Posted 10:02 a.m.): Fellow Marines, members of the community, friends, family and strangers have all come to Jay County High School today to say goodbye to Lance Corporal Andrew F. Whitacre. Pictures of the young Marine who called the small town of ...
- Words 2008 - Herald
words 2008 is an interactive exhibition based on new work from the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at Glasgow University. The exhibition is unique in that it takes the normally solitary process of writing out into the public domain. By doing ...
- A Violin's Family Legend, The Mind of a Romance Novelist, and ... - KUOW NPR
KUOW NPRA Violin's Family Legend, The Mind of a Romance Novelist, and ...KUOW NPR, WA - 3 hours agoTwo Pacific Northwest writers celebrate marriage through poetry. Judith Roche's Epithalamium offers a contemporary blessing of a marriage at its beginning. ...
- Edinburgh, open city - New Statesman
New StatesmanEdinburgh, open cityNew Statesman, UK - 16 hours agoOn the Fringe, you might start at the Traverse, with Free Outgoing (31 July to 24 August) by Anupama Chandrasekhar. This tale of a girl who becomes a ...
- Pianist strives to find the music's poetry (The Star-Ledger)
Born in Serbia 30 years ago, pianist Misha Dacic has the Eastern European features, lank hair and spidery fingers that spur critics to play up his likeness to old portraits of the original Romantic piano star, Franz Liszt.
- Chasing the rhymes of the West - IndiaPost.com
Chasing the rhymes of the WestIndiaPost.com, CA - 1 hour agoHe and artists such as The 1Shanti, Chee Malabar and D'Lo (a Sri Lankan-American woman featured on the nationally acclaimed Def Poetry Jam) follow ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers - San Francisco Gate
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of ...
- In a word, solid - Winnipeg Sun
In a word, solidWinnipeg Sun, Canada - 15 minutes agoSurprisingly, this synth-washed slow-burner about African-American identity isn't nearly as provocative as its title suggests. ...
- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of 'people's poet' Al ... - 680 News
TORONTO - Eurithe Purdy sat at the feet of her late husband, renowned poet Al Purdy, on Tuesday as a statue of him was unveiled at Queen's Park. "His pose to me looks so natural, as if he could almost walk away from where he's reclining," she said ...
- Honoring composer Elliott Carter - Los Angeles Times
LENOX, Mass. -- In 1986, Elliott Carter wrote "A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes," a salute to Texas on its 150th anniversary. That may appear a lot of notes to fit into a three-minute piece, but this brash bevy of 11 fanfares all fighting for ...
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