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- Nigeria: Highlights of Gusau '08 (AllAfrica.com)
The people were warm and humane, eager to please, and meticulous, oftentimes highly ceremonious.
- Unlocking the Ransom Center's 'Mystique of the Archive' (Austin American-Statesman)
Rustling around in an archive sounds like a dreary task — the sort of thing you'd delegate to the unpaid summer intern. But if you've ever spent a stray hour plunging into the countless files held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, you know that there's nothing dreary about it at all.
- McCain as President: Do Fewer Civil Liberties Mean Better Art? - Harvard Crimson
McCain as President: Do Fewer Civil Liberties Mean Better Art?Harvard Crimson, MA - 8 hours agoWhat’s more is that we may be only moments away from electing our first black President and starting the process of cleaning up this Dartmouth-frat-house of ...
- Serious Shortage of Real Political Champions - OpEdNews
Serious Shortage of Real Political ChampionsOpEdNews, PA - 7 hours ago... and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, ...
- Religion Calendar: 09/06/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 09/06/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 2 hours agoFriendship Program, 7 pm Tues., to help developmentally disabled adults understand Christian faith, Fellowship Church, 2555 Garfield Road, TC; ...
- Tony Vacca - Valley Advocate
Tony VaccaValley Advocate, MA - 5 hours agoThey've seen a lot of music... they are world travelers... but a South African singer with a strong American jazz influence and a white guy from New Jersey ...
- Abandoned tapes record evolution of bin Laden - The Tennessean
Abandoned tapes record evolution of bin LadenThe Tennessean, TN - 21 hours agoBin Laden's poems are "embedded" into his speeches at times, offering sometimes macabre insights into battle and death. Miller said, "He coaches his ...
- It happens only in McIndia - Times of India
It happens only in McIndiaTimes of India, India - 15 minutes agoIts organiser Lou Majaw, Shillong's 'Bob Dylan', says the singer "has given so much to the world through his soul-stirring poetry and music. ...
- Nigeria: Elechi Amadi, Celebrated Author - Militancy Okay If Leaders Have Intellectual Capacity (AllAfrica.com)
IN this interview, Dr Elechi Amadi , one of Africa's foremost writers, takes a critical look at the problem of militancy in the Niger Delta.
- Honoring An American Conservative Legend - The Bulletin
Between 700 and 900 people, including members of Congress and notable conservative luminaries, packed Washington, D.C.'s Four Seasons Hotel Wednesday night to honor Paul Weyrich, who serves as a regular Bulletin columnist, the man known as the father ...
- Fine Yuletide gift for wee hockey fans (Toronto Star)
"The outlook wasn't hopeful for the Rocket team that day. The score was three to two with just a minute left to play." Sound familiar? If you've ever heard or read the classic baseball poem, "Casey at the Bat," you will recognize the rhythm and rhyme.
- Godfather of punk rock coming to the Monkey - Everything Alabama
Not everyone knows the importance of Jonathan Richman. But the 57-year-old former frontman of The Modern Lovers has been called one of the godfathers of punk rock, penning songs like "Roadrunner" and "Pablo Picasso." On Saturday, Jonathan Richman and ...
- Bar Refaeli Presents Ironic Iconic America - Just Jared
Bar Refaeli Presents Ironic Iconic AmericaJust Jared, NY - 7 hours agoThe show will highlight American beauty, fashion, love and sex, design and food. Poet, multi-media artist and “observationalist†Rives (HBO’s Def ...
- Book Review: Postcards from the Asylum by Karen Knight - Blogcritics.org
Karen Knight is one of Australia's most respected poets. She's won a wide number of awards and grants, and has been a writer in residence both in Australia and overseas. Her previous poetry book, Under the One Granite Roof, took on the subject matter ...
- Performing her duty (The Capital)
Alice Butler Bradshaw was 21 years old when she cast her first ballot in 1924, just four years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In every election since then, Mrs. Bradshaw has faithfully made her way to the polls.
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