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- Obituary: Emmet Ferguson Jr. was involved in politics and in medicine - Florida Times-Union
There will be a memorial service Saturday for Emmet Fewell Ferguson Jr., a longtime Jacksonville physician and community leader who was a friend of former President Jimmy Carter since childhood. Dr. Ferguson, who had been in declining health in ...
- Trinity professor writes gripping bio of Ringelblum (Connecticut Jewish Ledger)
“Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive,” by Samuel D. Kassow, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2007. $34.95, 523 pages
- Karadzic: Behind the beard hid the angel of death - Scotsman
Times OnlineKaradzic: Behind the beard hid the angel of deathScotsman, United Kingdom - 7 hours agoHis privileged education, poetry and introduction of group therapy earned him a degree of celebrity. But his political career only really began in 1990 when ...Video: War Crimes Suspect to Fight Move to UN Tribunal AssociatedPressRadovan Karadzic: from small-time swindler to war criminal Telegraph.co.ukBosnia's butcher poet The AustralianTransitions Online - Independentall 4,278 news articles
- Akashic Launches Classic Reprint Series - Publishers Weekly
Akashic Launches Classic Reprint SeriesPublishers Weekly, NY - 2 hours agoAkashic Books publisher Johnny Temple said the new series will initially focus on radical African American literary figures, “but we may not stick to that ...
- 'Voice of my ancestors' guided N. Scott Momaday, keynote speaker ... - Quick DFW
'Voice of my ancestors' guided N. Scott Momaday, keynote speaker ...Quick DFW, TX - Jul 16, 2008"I regard poetry as the highest form of literature," he says, "the best possible way of expressing something in words. There is no waste at all in the ...
- Late in life, Millerton man shared story of POW camp - Star-Gazette
For me, the most remarkable thing about Arnold Mitchell isn't how he managed to survive difficult times. What is remarkable is the way he put the horrors of war behind him and built a beautiful life. Mitchell, who was shot down over Austria in 1944 ...
- Stop being a recycling polluter - Memphis Commercial Appeal
The future of the unmanned Agricenter public recycling drop-off center on Moore Road at Germantown Parkway is seriously threatened by individuals and businesses that leave cardboard, trash and other material on the ground around the containers ...
- Sales spike for next poet laureate (Erie Times-News)
NEW YORK -- Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet.
- U.S. poet laureate found it hard to hide her talents (San Diego Union-Tribune)
When Kay Ryan was a student at UCLA, the poetry club rejected her application; she was perhaps too much of a loner, she recalls. Now Ryan is being inducted into one of the most elite poetry clubs around.
- Battered woman becomes American refugee in Amsterdam (39) - City Pages
Tim Pawlenty racked up more vetoes this year than any governor in Minnesota's history. Is this the man we want to be vice president? Isaiah Berlin cataloged a pantheon of writers and thinkers using this bit of old poetry, but it's also a fine ...
- Stacks will feature Keillor - Pioneer Press
Stacks will feature KeillorPioneer Press, MN - 1 hour agoAndrei Codrescu, Oct. 30 — Romanian-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and National Public Radio commentator introduces his newest poetry collection, ...
- 'Bartholomew Fair, NJ,' hits home - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com'Bartholomew Fair, NJ,' hits homeThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 3 hours ago"I guess I'm a masochist," Mitchell says, joking, before adding, "No, I love poetry, and love the challenge of getting actors to speak in verse without its ...
- America Back on Track... for Tuesday, June 24th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Socrates who said, "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." Some observations on the news... Charles Black usually comes off ...
- The World According To Engelhardt - Common Dreams
WASHINGTON - It was neoconservative pundit Charles Krauthammer who, in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, inaugurated Washington’s unipolar moment. ‘America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more ...
- Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserve - The Independent
Arresting headlines all last week. "Police arrest Batman" caught the eye. "Police arrest Balls" would have been better, but Ballsing up the education of thousands is not yet considered a crime in this country. Unlike ballsing up your own ...
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