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- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - Miami Herald
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president who took power in a high-altitude coup and later dragged a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror, submitted his resignation Monday after a turbulent nine years in office ...
- Bobolinks make long trek to summer in northern tier - Morning Sentinel
Bobolinks make long trek to summer in northern tierMorning Sentinel, maine - 9 hours agoThe Bobolink song has inspired poetry. The American poet, William Cullen Bryant, based his poem "Robert of Lincoln" on the song of the Bobolink. ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, voice of the gulag - Daily Telegraph
In his lecture of acceptance of the Nobel prize for Literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn quoted a Russian proverb: "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." Those words succinctly encapsulated his literary creed. In a country where autocratic ...
- Iowa Festival of Song scheduled at Waldorf - Globe Gazette
FOREST CITY — The Iowa Festival of Song & Academy will be held June 10-15 at Waldorf College in Forest City. An inaugural concert featuring vocalist Elias Mokole and pianist Dr. KristÃn JónÃna Taylor will be presented at 7 p.m. June 10 at the ...
- ‘Americanized’ dream - Worcester Telegram
‘Americanized’ dreamWorcester Telegram, MA - 1 hour agoFrom lyric bards of old to Beats backed by jazz bands, music and poetry have gone hand-and-hand for ages. So what then to make of Duende, the collaboration ...
- Berkeley Is Still a Great Bookstore Town (Berkeley Daily Planet)
The saga of Cody’s Books finally ended this year when its Fourth Street store (last survivor of a series of venues that started north of the UC Campus 50 years ago, moved to Telegraph for several decades and was briefly in San Francisco’s Union Square) moved to a smaller space on Shattuck Avenue, then closed for good.
- VIRTUAL VANITIES - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphVIRTUAL VANITIESCalcutta Telegraph, India - 2 hours agoThe literature on the profile can be esoteric prose or poetry interspersed with ordinary language — in font size 6.5, or 26. The creatively challenged would ...
- Author, poet to speak at women's business dinner (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A self-published poet and author will be the keynote speaker tomorrow at a dinner celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Richmond chapter of the American Business Women's Association.
- Love's labor’s lost in post-invasion Iraq - Middle East Online
As statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have been. This is the land of the Arabian Nights ...
- What Is Happening Today ON Gather - Monday July 28 2008 - Gather.com
Gather.comWhat Is Happening Today ON Gather - Monday July 28 2008Gather.com, MA - 25 minutes agoWhatever the reason you love trains, we want to give you the chance to share your affections in the All Aboard group and the "Next Stop" Poetry Contest. ...
- Who We Are - Slate
David Plotz is editor of Slate . Before joining the magazine in 1996, Plotz was a senior editor and staff writer for the Washington City Paper . Plotz has written for the New York Times Magazine , Harper's , Rolling Stone , GQ, the New Republic , and ...
- Finding Hama - Haaretz.com
If a tree falls in a forest and its wood is used to produce the paper for a book that eventually goes out of print, does anyone notice? "The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories," a collection of short stories describing the years ...
- Whither Arab criticism? (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Organised by the Supreme Council for Culture (SCC), the International Conference for Literary Criticism, a three-day event held recently in Cairo, was taken up by discussion of problems of more than narrowly academic interest, including the definition of the literary text, ambiguity in modern Arabic poetry, methods of teaching the canonical Arabic criticism of the Middle Ages and cultural ...
- Culture Ireland again / comment (July 8, 2008) - CIRCA Art Magazine
Culture Ireland again / comment (July 8, 2008)CIRCA Art Magazine, Ireland - 23 hours agoNot every poet wants to do a poetry reading or lecutre or fill out a grant application. What is true of the poet, Meade says, goes for writers more ...
- ExploreLI: Freebie events this week (Newsday)
Need some rest and relaxation this week but don't have any cash? From polo to poetry, here's a list of free, fun things to do.
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