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- Outfront and center: Bad poetry returns! - Charlotte.com
When the Observer's Doug Robarchek retired in 2005, the humor columnist known as the Outfront Guy single-handedly caused a citywide shortage of cheesy jokes that make you laugh in spite of yourself. For readers who've been jonesing for an Outfront ...
- The Little Literary Press That Could - Walrus Magazine
Walrus MagazineThe Little Literary Press That CouldWalrus Magazine, Canada - 48 minutes ago(His notes of Johnston’s “Cathleen Sweeping” made me see the poem anew, and it’sa sonnet I’ve read dozens of times.) It’s perhaps a fine distinction, ...
- M. Catherine Honemann, 88 (Baltimore Sun)
Senior accountant M. Catherine Honemann, retired senior accountant who was active in her church, died of heart failure May 16 at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Stella Maris resident was 88.
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif - Orlando Sentinel
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Banks of England ... And the world - This is the Sentinel
Banks of England ... And the worldThis is the Sentinel, UK - 2 hours agoThat such a feat of unique athleticism should arrive not only against Brazil, but against the game's leading light, was sheer poetry in the most glowing ...
- Olde Towne Block Party to Feature Student Art Show this Friday at ... - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Olde Towne Block Party to Feature Student Art Show this Friday at ...The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 4 hours agoThe public is invited to the first Student Art Show & Poetry Reading on Friday, July 11 at 300 Robert St. in Olde Towne Slidell. The event runs from 6-9 pm ...
- The histories, by Herodotus - Globe and Mail
Globe and MailThe histories, by HerodotusGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoHistory, like poetry, began with war. Around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing of the wrath of Achilles, composed The Iliad, a Greek by the ...
- Actress backs medieval Norwich mystic appeal - Network Norwich
Actress backs medieval Norwich mystic appealNetwork Norwich, UK - 9 hours ago... the BBC did a series of programmes every morning which was a five minute spot of poetry or prose and they asked me to take part in it. ...
- Latitude interview: Tim Minchin - Norwich Evening News
Latitude interview: Tim MinchinNorwich Evening News, UK - 50 minutes ago... because he's smart and funny and grumpy. Michael Nyman because he does what I used to want to do; some poetry, because it's so poetical sometimes. ...
- Scientist will speak at Authors! (The Toledo Blade)
The 14th season of the Authors! Authors! series continues at 7 p.m.
- Lesbians pick fight with gay women - The Australian
ATHENS: A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos - home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women - have taken agay ...
- Diaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison - Forbes
Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in portions of Saddam's ...
- How does a headteacher cope with a pupil's murder? - Guardian Unlimited
Floral tributes to Ben Kinsella, the 17th teenager to die violently in London this year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Hours before the funeral of knife victim 16-year-old Ben Kinsella late last week, another teenager was stabbed to death ...
- Turkmen president orders removal of his autocratic predecessor's ... - International Herald Tribune
Turkmen president orders removal of his autocratic predecessor's ...International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoAnd he wrote several poetry books was well as the Rukhnama — a code of moral guidelines that became required reading for schoolchildren and government ...
- S. Africa: Celebrating Youth Day - OhmyNews International
S. Africa: Celebrating Youth DayOhmyNews International, South Korea - Jun 17, 2008Drama, poetry, dance and speechmaking were the order of the day. A police inspector in the Sekgosese region said they were concerned about the escalating ...
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