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- Controversial abortion doctor faced a lifetime of persecution (The Globe and Mail)
Henry Morgentaler's appointment to the Order of Canada is controversial
- Chopin: Genius or monster? (Independent)
Everyone knows Chopin, yet of all the great composers he's the least well-known. This is thanks partly to the myths that have accrued about him, and partly to the paradoxes in his music and character. The stock images are of the staunch Polish patriot, and of the hypersensitive aesthete coughing his heart out as he pens his romantic melodies. Yet in truth Chopin was a political ...
- A fruitful dialogue - Hindu
HinduA fruitful dialogueHindu, India - 2 hours agoTranslation as discovery: Marathi writer DM Mulay (left), publisher-translator Urvashi Butalia and Malayalam writer MT Vasudevan Nair. ...
- Park Happenings: And away we go... - Chinook Observer (subscription)
Park Happenings: And away we go...Chinook Observer (subscription), WA - 6 hours agoAlthough there is no longer public access to the pocket-size beach, the view is breath-taking enough to make it on the cover of Life magazine in July 2005. ...
- Empowerment banquet - Vaal Weekly
Empowerment banquetVaal Weekly, South Africa - 1 hour agoThe Re a Hola poetry outfit gave a wonderful rendition of a poem with the theme "gone are the days of oppression" taking centre stage. Not to be outdone, ...
- Events This Week - Virginia Gazette
Events This WeekVirginia Gazette, VA - 1 hour agoAfrican-American Heritage Day—Jamestown Settlement hosts musical performances, poetry, storytelling and specially themed museum tours and interpretive ...
- Letting the songs speak - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Letting the songs speakFort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 1 hour agoAnd his music owes a lot to the “folk” artists who rewrote the rules of rock, making it a safe home for poetry and introspection. ...
- Effort on to restore Ga. poet Byron Herbert Reece's farm - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Effort on to restore Ga. poet Byron Herbert Reece's farmAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 2 hours agoReece was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, but he stayed close to home to care for his parents, who were both stricken by tuberculosis, ...
- Sheffield's biggest gay party - Sheffield Telegraph
Sheffield's biggest gay partySheffield Telegraph, UK - Jun 2, 2008Headlining will be all girl punk band, The Ejaculators, and an eclectic line-up of a variety of acts ranging from poetry, comedy, burlesque and Mirkin ...
- Loraine Anderson: Lakes too special to lose (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
I love the Great Lakes and walking along Lake Michigan. I love the sense of peace and poetry the "big lake" stirs in me, the way it clears minds and opens hearts. I like looking at pictures shot from space and seeing Michigan floating smack dab in the middle of the Great Lakes basin. In recent years I've come to worry about this magnificent watershed.
- From The Stacks A column about the Tyrone-Snyder Public Library - Tyrone Daily Herald
From The Stacks A column about the Tyrone-Snyder Public LibraryTyrone Daily Herald, USA - 3 hours agoFrom July 21 through July 25, the library will be hosting Express Yourself, a weeklong daily program introducing children ages 8-12 to the fine arts held in ...
- Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notes - Tampabay.com
Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notesTampabay.com, FL - 3 hours agoThe tortured poetry of Cash and Haggard, for example, deftly chronicled the lives of those behind bars. America's love-hate relationship with the bottle and ...
- Free Times - Ohio's Premier News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly (Cleveland Free Times)
It's not all sports and rock in this town, no siree. From Bottom Dog Press, publisher of last year's book on the Cleveland godfather poet d.a. levy, comes this compendium of local poetic people in their native habitats. For in the editors' estimation, poetry does not merely exist on the page.
- Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy? - Dallas Morning News
Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy?Dallas Morning News, TX - 9 hours ago"Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and ...
- Mental illness survivors launch book - fijilive.com (subscription)
Mental illness survivors launch bookfijilive.com (subscription), Fiji - 3 hours ago... poetry and autobiographical sketches. The book is being launched at Sukuna Park in Suva tomorrow morning at the “Dare to Care” campaign, aimed to stop ...
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