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- For retired Rutgers professor, new role not lost in translation (The Star-Ledger)
When it comes to corporate gobbledygook, William Lutz shares your pain. As a consultant to promote the use of plain English in financial documents, the retired Rutgers professor managed to plow through 58 mutual fund prospectuses before crying "uncle."
- Three Southern Women Confront the Tragedy of War in A Dangerous Age - University of Arkansas Daily Headlines
Three Southern Women Confront the Tragedy of War in A Dangerous AgeUniversity of Arkansas Daily Headlines, AR - 20 minutes ago... Book Award for Victory Over Japan, Gilchrist is the author of more than 20 books, including novels, a memoir and collections of short stories and poetry.
- Viewing all entries for: July 2008 - Economist.com
WHEN I was a young whippersnapper I went for an interview at the Bank of England, which was offering scholarships for further study in economics. After softening me up with a bit of algebra, my inquisitor asked me the simplest question: why do we ...
- Iran's Sohrab Sepehri at 80 - Persian Journal
October 7th 2008 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of one of Iran's most celebrated modern poets, Sohrab Sepehri. On that day, hundreds of people will make their way to the lonely, remote mosque of Mashhad Ardehal, (on the desert road between ...
- Rockefeller Says Days With Daughter 'Glorious' (WBZ Boston)
The kidnapping suspect who calls himself Clark Rockefeller said he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with his daughter evading authorities, but deflected questions about his life before 1993, a time when authorities said he was living under another alias.
- Batman Is Back — The TIME Review - TIME
Batman Is Back — The TIME ReviewTIME - 2 hours agoIt turns pulp into dark poetry. Just as that movie found metaphors of cancer, aids and death in the story of a man devolving into an insect, ...
- China. Triumph of the Will once again - OpEdNews
China. Triumph of the Will once againOpEdNews, PA - 1 hour agoThe bad dream of deja vu of mine when I was a child and saluted the same way in the 1960s-70s. The bad dream. People under the stairs. ...
- Iran Creates Images of Shahnameh - Fars News Agency
Fars News AgencyIran Creates Images of ShahnamehFars News Agency, Iran - 5 hours agoFerdowsi's magnum opus, Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), is among the classics of Persian epic poetry, which recounts Iran's mythical and historical past. ...
- Thousands pay final respects to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish - CBC News
Iconic Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, seen here in July 2007, was buried in Ramallah on Wednesday. (Gil Cohen Magen/Associated Press) Following an impressive memorial fit for a head of state and complete with a eulogy from Palestinian President ...
- Review: 'Pineapple Express' is a high old time - CNN
(CNN) -- Producer Judd Apatow continues his popular assault on common decency in "Pineapple Express," an R-rated celebration of recreational drugs, anti-authoritarianism and mindless violence. Seth Rogen and James Franco find themselves in trouble in ...
- Death Be Not Proud - Huffingtonpost.com
Still reverberating from the stunning loss of the beloved Tim Russert along comes Mr. Death to twist the knife of unanticipated loss and drown us once again in grief. George Carlin is in the rarefied pantheon of the few, too few, truly great stand-up ...
- Twist in the Gut - Seattle Weekly
Twist in the GutSeattle Weekly, WA - 3 hours agoSome consider Blanche one of the most challenging roles in the American canon, and they are right. But because Williams invests his own love of poetry in ...
- So I Have Thought of You: The letters of Penelope Fitzgerald, ed Terence Dooley (Independent)
Penelope Fitzgerald has a strong claim to be the least known great British novelist of the last quarter of the 20th century. This collection of letters casts little light on the creative processes that produced the distinctive fiction of her later years, such as her final masterpiece, The Blue Flower. She was, after all, notably reticent about her writing, remarking after one, slightly awkward, ...
- New Beginnings by Corrine "CoCo" Melvin - WTNH
New Beginnings by Corrine "CoCo" MelvinWTNH, CT - 16 hours agoNew Beginnings - Realize, Release, and Recover is a compilation of true remarkable stories of my life, my poetry, and art that captures the heart of my ...
- Fountain working to revamp its image - Colorado Springs Gazette
Fountain does. It's not the sort of thing many associate with the bedroom community 10 miles southeast of Colorado Springs. But it's part of the new Fountain that boosters are pushing to overcome the town's image as the low-rent freight yard in ...
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