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- New DOE initiative aims to get students writing poetry - U-Wire.com
The halls of New York City public schools have echoed with rhymes over the past few weeks, as many students greeted with enthusiasm the chance to compose their very own poetry. Thanks to the Department of Education’s latest literacy initiative—P ...
- August, South Pacific, In the Heights, Boeing-Boeing, LuPone Are Tony ... - Playbill
Best Actor and Actress winners Mark Rylance, Deanna Dunagan, Paulo Szot and Patti LuPone. photo by Aubrey Reuben August: Osage County, South Pacific, Boeing-Boeing and In the Heights won top production honors at the 62nd Annual Tony Awards June 15 ...
- A town pays tribute to its fallen soldier - Star-Press
The ceremony honoring Lance Cpl. Andrew Whitacre ended Friday with a processional through Portland and to Grave Hill Cemetery, west of Bryant, Whitacre's hometown. Residents lined the streets of Portland to pay their respects to Whitacre, who was ...
- A room of one's own - Twin Cities Planet
A room of one's ownTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 5 hours agoI didn’t have the energy to follow through with events I had planned for promoting my poetry and for a while stopped writing completely. ...
- Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke takes new approach with '24 City.' - Los Angeles Times
CANNES, France -- By necessity, Jia Zhang-ke is a filmmaker who responds to current events with the instincts of a newshound. Not only is the 38-year-old director the most prominent Chinese filmmaker of his generation, he also has come to assume the ...
- Heinrich Heine's High-Altitude Irony - New York Sun
We do not expect books from the distant past to be genuinely funny. Even those that are advertised as rascally and unorthodox tend to amuse only indirectly, as a kind of in-joke for the historically informed reader. Old books that actually make us ...
- Physicist with a passion for storytelling - Science Centric
Peter Freund packed his book, A Passion for Discovery, with stories about important 20th-century physicists and mathematicians. The story of Emmy Noether is one that Freund, Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Chicago, liked to share ...
- Tobias Wolff Examines Life's Pivotal Turns - NPR
Tobias Wolff Examines Life's Pivotal TurnsNPR - 9 hours agoThe stern, brass-knuckled poetry of the dangerous classes." The man with the shotgun pushed the guard to his knees. He handed the shotgun to his partner and ...
- Library holds teen club, poetry night (Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD - "Teen Summer Reading Club - Extreme Makeover: Mind Edition" will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the main library, Broad and Bedford streets.
- A Celebration of Sand, in Vast Quantities or One Grain at a Time (New York Times)
A baggy compendium of artworks at the Parrish Art Museum offers a chance to meditate on the many meanings of one of the world?s cheapest and most precious materials.
- Your Health This Week - Slate
Download the MP3 audio version of this story here , or sign up to get all of Slate's free daily podcasts . There was a time when I didn't have a memory. It was the spring of 2001, after I suffered a Grade 3 concussion when a tow truck hit a taxi in ...
- Thrilling New Novels by Renowned Women Writers - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 5, 2008 · Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring and each one asks the reader to take a leap of imagination. Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the deaths of five authors; Jeanette Winterson takes a ...
- Russian police told to improve their image - Daily Telegraph
Worried by the widespread disdain for the force shown by ordinary Russians, Rashid Nurgaliyev, the interior minister, has ordered his errant officers to enrol themselves in a "programme of moral purification". The new initiative came as posters ...
- Moving ahead on the net - Casa Grande Valley Newspapers
Moving ahead on the netCasa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ - 4 hours agoOne man has written a number of things, from posters to poetry, about the effectiveness of this unique sports program. He's also explained his insight into ...
- Orville Hall: Stepping Up and Away - Jamaica Observer
Orville Hall: Stepping Up and AwayJamaica Observer, Jamaica - 7 hours agoSo in my writing - whether scripts, poetry or music - all my experiences go into it. SPLASH: Still on relationships, have you ever broken a woman's heart? ...
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