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- An uneasy calm in a key Georgia city (AP via Yahoo! News)
Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47.
- Missed the train - Jerusalem Post
Missed the trainJerusalem Post, Israel - 4 hours ago("Should Darwish's poetry be taught in schools?" Ehud Zion Waldoks, August 11.) As an Israeli, I would have to aver no; as a language educator having taught ...
- Lonesome and blue - Columbia Daily Tribune
Lonesome and blueColumbia Daily Tribune, MO - 1 hour agoHis bare-knuckle, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and it’s shot with blue-collar authenticity. ...
- Book Festival Schedule - RedOrbit
Book Festival ScheduleRedOrbit, TX - 18 hours agoHere is a selected list of Milwaukee Book Festival events from today through Oct. 14. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free. For a complete schedule, ...
- Poetry in motion - Gold Coast News
Poetry in motionGold Coast News, Australia - 23 minutes agoA lifetime ago, or so it seems, a young mother who just a few years earlier was still a child herself, whispered wisdom into the ear of her own child. ...
- Reef Contest for Kids (KHNL News 8 Honolulu)
HONOLULU, Hawaii (KHNL) - The ocean is very important to the people of Hawaii, and students from across the country are invited to show off their knowledge about marine conservation. The Hawaii Ocean Guardian's Kid's Club is part of the 2008 International Year of the Reef observance in Hawaii.
- History lesson on tap at writer's festival (Guelph Mercury)
An oil canvas of Lucy Maud Montgomery rests on a lawn chair in the backyard of a home in the quiet village of Eden Mills.
- STAGE REVIEW: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a feast for the senses - Reading Eagle
CENTER VALLEY - The final offering of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's season is a sumptuous feast for the senses, as well as a brilliant rendering of one of the most romantic plays ever written: Emund Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac." With ...
- Acclaimed movie 'XXY opens today in limited run - Southern Voice
Southern VoiceAcclaimed movie 'XXY opens today in limited runSouthern Voice, GA - 9 hours ago... of medical diagnosis, but with almost no fictions, as if the subject would be a taboo for any kind of poetry and fiction around it."
- My Financial Plan - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsMy Financial PlanOpEdNews, PA - 23 minutes agoIn addition he has published more than 1700 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Looking for something fresh in films? Try these (The Toledo Blade)
Verily, autumn hath nearly arrived, and already there’s a fresh crop of arty and campy movie classics for cinemaphiles and film majors alike to feast upon. But these cinema showcases are more than eye-candy for lovers of the big screen. For anyone who’s ever complained about the paint-by-numbers plots of the latest box-office behemoth starring actors with mono-syllable names (Tom, Bruce, ...
- Mitchell’s Cahnah party will raise money for Nahant Education Foundation Aug. 31 (The Daily Item)
NAHANT - It’s an adults-only party, but it’s all about the kids. The fifth annual “Mitchell’s Cahnah” Block Party will raise money for the Nahant Education Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that raises money for the schools.
- How you can help to save some cherished words from oblivion (Times Online)
Dictionary compilers at Collins have decided that the word list for the forthcoming edition of its largest volume is embrangled with words so obscure that they are linguistic recrement . Such words, they say, must be exuviated abstergently to make room for modern additions that will act as a roborant for the book.
- Nation & World Views Life can't really be valued in dollars - Ithaca Journal
What's the value of a human life? ... We do have an answer, courtesy of our national nanny — the federal government. A human life is worth $6.9 million. To be more precise, that amount is the statistical value in today's dollars, calculated by the ...
- English poet, - Independent
Share Whenever he was asked his nationality, Cecil Day-Lewis , British Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972, would unfailingly reply "Irish". He told the anecdote with a smile. As well he might for, though he was born in 1904 in ...
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