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- Rivals can find common ground - The UCLA Daily Bruin
Rivals can find common groundThe UCLA Daily Bruin, CA - 5 hours agoThe defensive poetry was equaled by some scorching hits at home plate. The game itself was rarely close as we, the Bruins, rode on the strength of five ...
- Goodnight and Good Sales - Newsweek
President Bush's approval rating is mired in the high 20s, and his presidency is nearing its end-making this an ideal moment for a requiem for the Bush presidency, albeit an unconventional, and slightly controversial one. "Goodnight Bush," an ...
- 'Black Rider', Award-Winning Musical Play by Burroughs, Waits and Wilson, to Make Toronto Premiere (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The Black Rider, The Casting of the Magic Bullets, the folk tale-inspired avant-garde play with music by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs, seen in Europe, the U.S. and Canada, will make its Toronto premiere at Tarragon Theatre's Mainspace Oct. 8 toward an Oct. 15 opening.
- Charlotte Kohler | Literary editor, 99 - Philadelphia Inquirer
Charlotte Kohler | Literary editor, 99Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 20 minutes agoThe Virginia Quarterly Review was first published in 1925, and its collective table of contents is vast, encompassing high-quality fiction, poetry and ...
- Caroline Dotson: ‘The Painter From Shanghai’ grabs readers - Craig Daily Press
Caroline Dotson: ‘The Painter From Shanghai’ grabs readersCraig Daily Press, CO - 19 minutes agoHowever, Zanhua did enjoy Yuliang’s company because of her knowledge of poetry. Zanhua was a modern thinking man and he did not want Yuliang to be trapped ...
- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 (Vail Trail)
Chosen by Trail Runner Magazine as one of “America’s 14 most scenic races,” the Golden Leaf is one of the most beautiful foot races in the Rockies.
- Bring a bottle with a clear conscience - Telegraph.co.uk
Bring a bottle with a clear conscienceTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 hours agoThat note - inscribed on the invitation to the poetry-group-cum-drinking-society I used to go to - was pretentious student snobbery. ...
- Poems spoke to Palestinians - Chicago Tribune
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more than 20 ...
- Will Obama and McCain qualify for Political Slogan Hall of Fame? (The Pantagraph)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Life isn’t a bowl of cherries, it’s a boatload of slogans. They’re everywhere and in our heads. They’re the hooks of marketing. And presidential campaigns. That’s because the good ones work. | Man charged after gun found in car near Obama's home | Senior McCain aide has ties to Freddie Mac | McCain talks economy with Romney, CEOs
- Nelson Mandela uses 90th birthday to warn South Africans not to forget ... - Times Online
Nelson Mandela, a global icon for his long struggle against apartheid, marked his 90th birthday today with an appeal to the wealthy of the country he led to democracy to remember the less fortunate. Speaking at his birthplace in the rural Eastern ...
- What the World Needs Now ... - Article.nationalreview.com
C arl Anderson, the Supreme Knights of the Knights of Columbus, is author of a new book called, A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World . He took questions this weekend from National Review Online editor Kathryn ...
- Reader Roundup: Stadiums, grammar and silos prompt prose and poetry - Minnpost.com
Old topics (stadiums and smoking bans) and new ones (light pollution and good grammar) sparked lively comments from Minnpost readers recently. And don't miss the poetry inspired by North Dakota missile silos. Tony Wagner was among those commenting on ...
- We Have So Few - Kommersant
Academician Petr Kapitsa (above) waited 40 years for his well-deserved honor. He received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics for work published in 1938. The Nobel Committee responded quickly to Nikolai Basov (below) and Aleksandr Prokhorov’s discovery ...
- Poet versed in humor (The Washington Times)
In the musty, overheated Academy of American Poetry, Billy Collins is the wiseguy in the back row, throwing spitballs and cracking up his friends. His poetry, both thoughtful and hilarious, takes the starch out of writing workshops, pompous scribes, poetry readings, professional sons of the Ould Sod, and the ceaseless comparing of thee to a summer's day — all the trappings of mainstream verse ...
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