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- Central students take third in WordMasters Challenge - News-Leader.com
A group of Central High School 10th grade students took third place out of 610 high school teams from across the country in this year’s WordMasters Challenge, the Springfield school district announced in a news release. The competition for high ...
- A Letter to a Retired Activist - OpEdNews.com
My friend John spent most of 30 or 40 years as a full time activist. A learned, wise and all around intelligent man, his subsistence came from doing “odd jobs” here and there. His full time job was to deface the nation’s highways and byways by ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Kansas City Star
Liz Lange, the founder and president of the Liz Lange maternity line, center, is seen with her daughter Alice, left, and son Gus at their home, Tuesday, June 3, 2008 in New York. As thousands of working parents across the country know, June can be ...
- Race relations - Eye Weekly
Eye WeeklyRace relationsEye Weekly, Canada - 20 hours agoBY Sasha April 23, 2008 17:04 I grew up in America, but my parents are from Tanzania and have always wanted me to end up with an African. ...
- Homesick refugee's language and culture academy blooms - Contra Costa Times
Homesick refugee's language and culture academy bloomsContra Costa Times, CA - 1 hour agoShe won the school's poetry-reading contest. High schoolers in a classroom watch slides of a river framed by steep peaks and practice a song for Polish ...
- You write the reviews: Roger Lloyd Pack, The Maltings, Wells-Next ... - Independent
You write the reviews: Roger Lloyd Pack, The Maltings, Wells-Next ...Independent, UK - 36 minutes agoThis was a good choice for the opening night of the 11th Poetry-next-the-Sea festival in Norfolk. Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in ...
- The beauty of Islam (The Kansas City Star)
Several readers of last week’s column asked why I called Islam “incredibly beautiful.” Based on decades of study, world travel and long friendships with Muslims, I answer with three hints.
- Japan's Poetry Boxers Get Ready to Grumble - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Japan's Poetry Boxers Get Ready to GrumbleChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 15 hours agoBy DAVID MCNEILL In a crowded Yokohama hall, boxers file into a ring watched by cheering students and a panel of university professors. ...
- Sign up by July 16 for teen game day - Record-Courier
Staff Reports Story time is 10 a.m. every Wednesday until Aug. 27 in Lampe Park on Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville. Children 3 and older are invited to listen to stories, poems and make crafts.
- Why Cuts? - Berkeley Daily Planet
My second-grade students want to know the answer to that question and they’ve written a poem to elicit an answer. Each year my Spanish dual-immersion students at Rosa Parks produce laminated poetry bookmarks as part of our “Pepper Ink” labor ...
- Remembering good old JCHS and literature class (The Tomahawk)
Of all the subjects in high school, one of my favorites was Literature. I wasn’t too big on grammar. As a writer of sorts, I wish I had been a little more attentive when the subject of grammar came up. But, I have a number of reference books on grammar now, so I can just look it up.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream: freewheeling fun - Daily Telegraph
Rupert Christiansen reviews A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opera North/Grand Theatre Leeds and Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden Opera North's wonderful new production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream evokes the Swinging Sixties ...
- Composer Stephen Foster's life in city helped shape music (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Stephen Collins Foster's young years in Pittsburgh in the 1800s helped shaped the music he would write later in his life.
- Richard Helgerson (Guardian Unlimited)
The American academic Richard Helgerson, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 67, was one of the leading scholars of Renaissance literature and culture of the last 40 years. His reputation rests on six books, all lucidly and elegantly written.
- Church services and events - Independent
RiverTree Christian Church, Massillon campus, will feature the sermon “Hannah” from the series “Heroes.” The congregation meets at Washington High School. Sunday Pentecost Sunday and Mother’s Day at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. To ...
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