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- Social networking sites benefit low-income group students - Smash Hits
Social networking sites benefit low-income group studentsSmash Hits, India - 5 hours agoThey're also sharing creative original work like poetry and film and practising safe and responsible use of information and technology. ...
- Whitehaven News (The Whitehaven News)
MUD, sun, queues and sheer brilliance; Glastonbury 2008. I’d always wanted to experience the Mother of all Festivals, in the past I’d looked on enviously when university friends had flashed their “Golden Tickets” after spending what seemed like days on the phone.
- Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home take poetry classes as penance - Pioneer Press
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The ...
- Israelis, Arabs band together - The Kingston Whig-Standard
Israelis, Arabs band togetherThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 1 hour agoIt's one of many moments of outright poetry in The Band's Visit, one so date-melt-worthy you wonder why it wasn't released on Valentine's Day.
- Mental-health counselor named to Florida Bar's Citizens Forum (Pensacola News Journal)
Florida Bar President Jay White appointed Pensacola mental-health counselor Connie Reeves Bookman to the Florida Bar's Citizens Forum for a three-year term.
- CU professor publishes translation of ‘Aeneid' (The Ithaca Journal)
The Roman poet Virgil spent the last 11 years of his life writing “Aeneid,” an epic poem of a hero's journey from Troy to Italy, styled on Homer's “Odyssey” and “Iliad.”
- Jury Finds Geneva Man Guilty of Murder (R News)
It took a jury three hours to find an Ontario County man guilty of murdering a Geneva teenager. Jurors found Tremaine Green of Geneva guilty of second degree murder for the shooting death of Elvin Cruz, 17.
- Happy birthday: Chipper Jones turns 36 in win (The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register)
ATLANTA (AP) _ Chipper Jones had another birthday to remember, right down to teammate Brian McCann's belly flop of a slide. Jones celebrated his 36th birthday by going 3-for-3, including a homer, to lead Atlanta past the NL East-leading Florida Marlins 7-4 on Thursday night.
- The Gas Hike Poems - San Francisco Examiner
God or something keeps hurling these people onto the streets. And this one is insane and that one is dull. That one has a mangled face and that one has a mangled back. That one is some kind of hip doofus and that one is stressed out, tired, not ...
- art Till July 18 at Gandhara Art Gallery, 1B Gurusaday Dutta Road, Flat 5A (Palm Spring), #2280-1790, 22811255; 1 pm - ... (The Telegraph)
Magic of Monochrome , a group show of drawings and paintings by eminent Indian artists.
- Handstands and anger (Guardian Unlimited)
Why I write: Poet Luke Kennard, the award-winning author of The Solex Brothers on reading Snoopy, fiddling with magnets and the unorthodox passions that drive his work
- Norman library names poetry winners (The Oklahoman)
NORMAN — Winners of the Norman Public Library poetry contest have been announced. The library cele
- Bessie Head competition (Mmegi)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards.
- Cover Stories: strong debuts on prize list; the Bhutto perspective; Linley deal; Doyle's farewell (Independent)
* Good to see that "sparkling new fiction" doesn't necessarily equal chicklit and beach reads. The shortlist for the first Desmond Elliott Prize, announced this week, highlights some strong debuts: there's Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh of this parish (Fourth Estate); Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking); and Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster). The 1/2 favourite, it is set in ...
- Indian journalist brings out magazine in Braille (OneWorld South Asia)
The visually impaired students of Maharashtra now have an opportunity to be as attuned to what’s happening across the globe as those who are in the habit of reading newspapers and watching television.
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