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- Teaching Arabic and Propaganda - Washington Post
At Harvard , the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She's the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout "Al-Kitaab," the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and other American ...
- 'Girls Like Us' links lives of 3 singers - Chicago Tribune
Sisterhood—in the family and body politic—can be a beautiful abstraction and a real pain in the neck. It's an evanescent ideal that sometimes takes shape in historic movements. And it's the cosmic force behind Sheila Weller as she tries to link ...
- Norman author to read poetry (The Oklahoman)
NORMAN — "Antidotes and Home Remedies,” a new poetry book by Norman author Jim Chastain, will be launched Sunday at the Performing Arts Studio's Second Sunday Poetry Reading. The reading will begin at 2 p.m. at Norman Depot, 200 S Jones. "The book is a combination of health-related poems and some of my most popular poems from the last few years,” Chastain said. "There will be snacks, music, a ...
- V.S. Naipaul's 'A Writer's People' (International Herald Tribune)
Naipaul does not consider himself just a writer, but something grander and more ambitious. His stated project is "fitting one civilization to another." And he ranges far.
- Sheryl Crow Let All Inhibitions Go in Recording Her New Album of Songs - RedOrbit
Sheryl Crow Let All Inhibitions Go in Recording Her New Album of SongsRedOrbit, TX - 3 hours ago"My main objective was to be strikingly truthful on this record, to not mask anything behind beautiful poetry, but just to really speak the truth," she said ...
- Rockin' in the Region - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Notes See: Lee Miles will perform at Kyle Morris’ CD release party at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at 816 Pint & Slice, 816 S. Calhoun St. Hear: Music by Lee Miles is available at www.journalgazette.net and at www.myspace.com/therealleemile and on his label ...
- Richard Hoffman's "Summer Job" (Seattle Times)
Though at the time it may not occur to us to call it "mentoring," there's likely to be a good deal of that sort of thing going on, wanted...
- Poetry comes to life at NWACC - Northwest Arkansas News
BENTON COUNTY - A 13-year-old girl saves the life of poetry in a play written and performed by students for students. Students in the creative dramatics class at Northwest Arkansas Community College wrote the play "The Day Poetry Not Quite, But Sort ...
- American Opinion - American Reporter
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- This is the month when I look out the window at nothing in particular for as long as it takes to breathe a sigh, slowly turn away and get on with it. Get on with what? I don't know. This is January and I get through it ...
- Celebrating independence and heritage - Sterling Journal-Advocate
STERLING — Singing cowboys, a blacksmith, an auctioneer, demonstrations of butter churning and crafts, donkey rides, snow cones, fundraising, costume contests and lots of food — these were just some of the offerings at the 2008 Logan County ...
- Neuroscientist: Poetry Comes From Synesthesia, Tree-Climbing (Wired News)
A prominent neuroscientist told a crowd at the World Science Festival that the curious phenomenon of synesthesia -- in which some people "taste" colors or "hear" smells -- is simply a consequence of the aptitude humans evolved for abstraction.
- Superb epic 'Mongol' shows us Ghengis' Khan-do attitude (Orlando Sentinel)
- Britain's Got Talent star Andrew Muir vows to win it for ill cousin - Glasgow Sunday Mail
BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Andrew Muir shares a tender, heartbreaking moment with his six-year-old cousin Lori, who is dying of cancer. Last night, Scots plumber Andrew, 24, earned a standing ovation for his performance of Paolo Nutini's Rewind. But ...
- 'Two Rivers' Blends Iraqi Music, American Jazz - Hartford Courant
'Two Rivers' Blends Iraqi Music, American JazzHartford Courant, United States - 38 minutes agoBasinger, having memorized and internalized the piece, makes the poem come to life onstage. For more information, call 860-347-4957. ...
- Ellen Bass' "Dead Butterfly" - Seattle Times
How often have you wondered what might be going on inside a child's head? They can be so much more free and playful with their imaginations than adults. And they are so good at keeping those flights of fancy secret and mysterious that even if we were ...
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