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- Serbia's arresting development - Los Angeles Times
After 13 years of fulsome denials, false starts and broken promises, Serbia's new leaders have finally taken the step they said was impossible. On Monday, police arrested Radovan Karadzic, one of the remaining marquee fugitives indicted for war ...
- Grant High classmates mourn freshman (The Sacramento Bee)
While classmates penned tributes Tuesday to young Jaazaniah McGee, family members mourned his death.
- OPINION: The anger, the longing, the hope —Uri Avnery - Daily Times
OPINION: The anger, the longing, the hope —Uri AvneryDaily Times, Pakistan - 1 hour agoHe was a master of classical Arabic, and equally at home with Western and Israeli poetry. Many believe that he was the greatest Arab poet, and one of the ...
- Events: Florida Poets Happy Hour and Prime Time Show is Sept. 19 - St. Petersburg Times
Antonia Lewandowski ( Out of the Woods ) will read from and sign her book of poetry at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Largo Library, 120 Central Park Drive. Cody Fowler Davis ( Implied Consent ) will sign his legal thriller at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Barnes ...
- Desire: A dangerous flame - The Independent
We think of it as an irresistible force – yet we are so in thrall to it that we have ceased to respect it. Jeanette Winterson looks at the power of desire Why is the measure of love loss? In between those two words – love, loss, and standing on ...
- Literary journal moves to Ark. university (The Daily Record)
CONWAY, Ark. — The University of Central Arkansas is publishing another literary journal. Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters & Life, a 25-year-old journal that has been available only on the Internet for the past decade, will publish an annual edition through the Conway campus.
- Book Briefs: Aug. 31, 2008 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Because the number of books made into films increases each year, the local movie theater has morphed into a de facto bookstore for reluctant readers choosing their next book.
- Palestinian poet dies in Texas (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas.
- MidEast Daily News - The Media Line
MidEast Daily NewsThe Media Line, NY - Jul 31, 2008Living in Israel, speaking fluent Hebrew, voting for the Knesset (Israel's parliament) and learning Hebrew poetry is causing more than one million ...
- U.N. troops offer lessons in peace in Lebanon - LF website
Yoga, French poetry, pizza making -- the international forces stationed there give war-weary residents a respite from their cares. EBEL AL SAQI, LEBANON — The yoga instructor chuckles, and the three dozen or so women follow along, giggling ...
- Creative Type: Profiles of Arts Personalities - Downtown LA Scene
Creative Type: Profiles of Arts PersonalitiesDowntown LA Scene, CA - 6 hours agoCoolest artwork ever: A new piece called “Poetry on Fire” will be coming to MONA from a Stanford physicist. When you type on the vintage typewriter keys, ...
- Students celebrate diversity - Daily Aztec
Students celebrate diversityDaily Aztec, CA - 6 hours ago"We'll have folk, rock, hip-hop, poetry, comedy … all forms of entertainment." Starck said she was thrilled that the Aztec Nights committee supported this ...
- Literary Calendar (Washington Post)
10 A.M. Sept. 8 is International Literacy Day, and to mark the occasion, children's author Sharon M. Draper reads from and discusses her young adult novel Copper Sun (a tale of the slave trade) at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. To RSVP, contact the International Reading...
- Musharraf’s turbulent 9 years in power (Las Vegas Sun)
Mon, Aug 18, 2008 (5:15 a.m.) 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.
- Lives Remembered: Gerry Sanderson (Independent)
Gerry Sanderson, who has died aged 55, was the classic English eccentric, whose talent was as deep as his love of life. His frequent balls and bashes, he declared, were the perfect antidote to the often clinical, calculating world of architecture in which he made his name. The party venues were his own country homes – Bucklebury Place in Berkshire and The Manor House at Petty France, ...
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