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- Ivy League offers online courses (Guardian Unlimited)
The Ivy League university is offering online courses to students who log on from all over the world. Angela Balakrishnan reports
- A Changing Antarctica Draws 'Doomsday' Tourists - NPR
A Changing Antarctica Draws 'Doomsday' TouristsNPR - 37 minutes agoBut you know what they say: Hip hop is the poetry of the streets. Even here, where there are no streets. What the tourists onboard the ship don't know is ...
- Airport event receives $550 from CTB - Augusta Daily Gazette
Airport event receives $550 from CTBAugusta Daily Gazette, KS - 5 hours agoFrom Augusta, the fliers will depart for concluding activities at the El Dorado Civic Center, enjoy barbecue brisket and some cowboy poetry.
- Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Oscar and Walt Scratch Each ... - New York Observer
Oscar Wilde, on his tour of America in 1882, made not one but two pilgrimages to Camden, N.J., to see Walt Whitman—whose poetry he claimed to have known “from the cradle.” Afterward, the Good Grey Poet told a reporter that Wilde was “genuine ...
- Michelle Tea (RainbowNetwork.com)
It`s no exaggeration to say that Michelle Tea is the voice of a generation.
- 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners (AP via Yahoo! News)
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists:
- MAKING A WRONG THING RIGHT (The Wichita Eagle)
Like so many great American poets, Richard Hugo succeeded in spite of himself. Abandoned as an infant by his father and teenage mother, Hugo grew up under the strict, distrustful rule of his maternal grandparents. They alternately lavished him with affection and beat him without mercy. Plagued by feelings of worthlessness and self-doubt, Hugo saw himself as "a wrong thing in a right world." ...
- Presidential Watch – Daily – Wednesday, March 26 - Family Security Matters
Presidential Watch – Daily – Wednesday, March 26Family Security Matters, NJ - 4 hours ago... some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis , listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. ...
- Jenny, this poem's for you (OnMilwaukee.com)
Anyone who grew up in the ‘70s or ‘80s knows at least one – possibly six – girls named Jenny or Jen or Jennifer.
- Whisking the wind away in San Bernardo (Telluride Daily Planet)
I’m not a fan of the flute. It’s fluttering shrill is like the wind on a gusty day, when it sneaks through the nooks and crannies of your house, making its presence known with a high-pitched howl.
- Javed Akhtar mixes poetry with management (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Though he was there to release a book on management, well-known Hindi film lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar gave in to the request of the audience and recited some of his poems here Sunday.
- Snow buries plan for Aspen egg hunt (The Aspen Times)
ASPEN The Easter Bunny, apparently, doesn't care for deep snow.
- My Secret Life: Hattie Morahan, Actress, 29 (Independent)
The house/flat I grew up in.... detached, in the middle of the Devil's Punchbowl in Surrey, which is about as idyllic as you can get. The valley behind is like a back garden. It was a great place to go off and explore when I was young.
- Lee schools celebrate 'Arts in Our Schools' month (The News-Press)
Several Lee County public schools will celebrate "Arts in Our Schools Month" in March.
- Community calendar - March 6 (Akron Beacon Journal)
Area community events for the entire family
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