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- Obama’s victory: a change the world should believe in - Financial Times
The world looks anew at its sole superpower. For the past several years America’s most formidable adversary has not been al-Qaeda, North Korea or Iran. The strategic threat to US power has come from rising anti-Americanism. The election of Barack ...
- Former US poet laureate receives $100000 prize - The Associated Press
Former US poet laureate receives $100000 prizeThe Associated Press - Sep 2, 2008... the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. ...
- Literary happenings: Political campaigns from a child's perspective (Ventura County Star)
Seventh-grader Vanessa Rothrock is a spelling bee addict, loves Mrs. Perez's Drop Dead Lemon Squares and gets too many notes from Mr. Applebaum, her math teacher. Vanessa yearns to blend in, which is difficult — because her mom wants to be elected president of the United States. Filled with spelling bee details and political fun, a loving family and believable action, "As if 12 3/4 isn't Bad ...
- Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down - The Heights (subscription)
Thumbs Up / Thumbs DownThe Heights (subscription), MA - 18 hours agoReeeaaalll funny. NFL Overtime Rules - When you score the game-tying touchdown with one second remaining in regulation and then don't touch the ball again, ...
- Theatre: brave try in Scotland - Telegraph.co.uk
Theatre: brave try in ScotlandTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 10 hours agoThe play is a celebration of Edinburgh (its Gothic streets, and its Gothic teenagers) and a comic exploration of unfulfilled middle-age. ...
- THINGS TO DO: 7 Days and 7 Nights (Gay City News)
A Choreographic Encyclopedia The 2008 DanceNOW Festival brings the vibrant creativity of New York's dance community to the stage, offering audiences an opportunity to connect and re-connect with 65 artists - some they know, others new - and to engage in a wide spectrum of work.
- October 17 in History - Viet Nam News
October 17 in HistoryViet Nam News, Vietnam - 1 hour agoHe was called Thanh Quat (Saint Quat) by admirers of his poetry. Death of Frederic Chopin, Polish romantic composer and pianist. His music, written chiefly ...
- Catholic Family Release Album Of Ancient Sanskrit Hymns - Showbiz Spy
Catholic Family Release Album Of Ancient Sanskrit HymnsShowbiz Spy, UK - 1 hour agoAndrea Forman, who has also translated traditional Christian prayer Ave Maria in Sanskrit, says, "We fell in love with the overwhelming stillness, ...
- Commentary: Fraudsters through the ages - Times Online
The great hoaxers can be broadly categorised as those who fake because they can and those who fake because they must. Professor Heslop-Harrison appears to be a classic entry in the second, sadder, column in which you will also find such cases as ...
- Peace concert held in Takoradi. - Modern Ghana
Peace concert held in Takoradi.Modern Ghana, Ghana - 6 hours agoThe crowd were entertained with poetry recitals, pieces of advice on peace and a drama on peace. The event is being sponsored by the World Bank, ...
- Senior citizens pursuing education from home - Hanford Sentinel
NEW YORK - Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature. But Leeds will never step foot on a campus or in a classroom. The 79-year-old widow has multiple ...
- Whitehaven News (The Whitehaven News)
IT IS SOMEWHAT ironic that Billy Eaves has been a respected funeral director for almost 50 years. Providing a dignified committal to the people of Whitehaven has been the Eaves family ethos for nearly half a century now.
- Appreciations: Pat Kavanagh - guardian.co.uk
Appreciations: Pat Kavanaghguardian.co.uk, UK - Oct 22, 2008She was terribly discreet, and also terribly funny. She never told you what she thought you wanted to hear. "Ooookay," she would say at the end of an ...
- Peter Matthiessen, Marilynne Robinson among book award finalists - Jam! Showbiz
NEW YORK - Talk about second chances. Eighty-one-year old Peter Matthiessen has received a National Book Award nomination for "Shadow Country," an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s. Others in the fiction category ...
- Junot Diaz's dual realities - Louisville Courier-Journal
Crack open the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Junot Diaz, page through the opening epigraphs, and you know you're in for an unusual journey. It opens with a funny, typically melodramatic one-liner from a 1966 Fantastic Four comic book, followed by a ...
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