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- Interview: Daniela Barone Soares - Guardian Unlimited
Daniela Barone Soares had spent a decade working as a private equity banker when she began to reassess her career goals. Her initial plan had been to amass a fortune and give it all away to charity. But life, she realised, was too short. "It came to ...
- Radovan Karadzic: the master of life and death - Daily Telegraph
The Father Christmas beard, the knotted ponytail and the smeared glasses have gone. Radovan Karadzic, freshly clean-shaven, now sits in his cell, reading the Bible obsessively. In the past week, the two lives he managed to keep separate for 12 years ...
- Poetry readings add uniqueness to new exhibit of women's art (The Warren Sentinel)
Last Thursday, the opening reception for the exhibit began at 5 p.m. Literary readings were scheduled for an hour and a half later, and were so popular that latecomers to the tiny side room had to stand.
- San Bruno group seeks funds to continue student exchange with Japan - Tri Valley Herald
San Bruno group seeks funds to continue student exchange with JapanTri Valley Herald, CA - 4 hours ago... accompanying the American youngsters — taught haiku in a class after being asked how she teaches the traditional Japanese form of poetry in San Bruno. ...
- Ray of Sunshine amid economic gloom - Plymouth Evening Herald
Ray of Sunshine amid economic gloomPlymouth Evening Herald, UK - 15 hours agoTo that end they are sending out a positive message of support and are offering free places to all those under 16 years of age. ...
- 'Pansy Ass' Potter wants to be drag act - Metro
Metro'Pansy Ass' Potter wants to be drag actMetro, UK - 1 hour agoI write poetry and I love it. I like being different from most other people in my generation.' 'For the most part I've been happy every single day. ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - Forbes
Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure to be ...
- BESA…When Muslims Saved Jews - Islam Online
BESA…When Muslims Saved JewsIslam Online, Qatar - 15 hours agoThe Jewish American, who has studied Sufism, says Islam is not what many Westerners think. "To me Islam is poetry, is science, is to be with the divine. ...
- Exercise your Mind (BellaOnline)
Ideas for improving your memory, expanding your interests and teaching an old dog new tricks!
- Life's losses lead protagonist back to ‘Wawona Hotel' (The Oklahoman)
This novel's setting is near Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places in the American West. The book begins with a 1969 car crash involving Danielle McAllister, a wreck that changes her life forever. "Wawona Hotel†by Matthew McKay (Boaz Publishing Co., $24.95) is a gripping psychological thriller, a page-turner written by a psychologist. This is McKay's first novel. It is seasoned ...
- Ballad of John and Yoko Hits All the Wrong Notes With Critics - Buzzle
Ballad of John and Yoko Hits All the Wrong Notes With CriticsBuzzle, CA - 23 minutes ago"Imagine there's no Beatles, imagine no iconic movies, no White Album, no poetry books, no drawings," wrote Linda Winer for Newsday. ...
- No Parking Anytime: Cottages house writers' aspirations (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Within the beauty of the P-patch and the old cottages there, beauty is being produced as writers move in and out, using the space as a creative enclave.
- In Iraq, The Love Stories Are Gone - Common Dreams
BAGHDAD - As statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have been. This is the land of the ...
- 'Jellyfish' is clever, but like its characters, it drifts (The Plain Dealer)
A couple stands in the harsh sunshine, silently but obviously breaking up. The man is sullen. The woman is silent. Behind them, the sea stretches out in turquoise waves -- but there's something wrong with the perspective. This body of water stretches out vertically, not horizontally.
- Poetry column: Living with abandon and abandonment - Evening Sun
If we all could be projective and accurate, the world might be perfect, for each of us. But, risk and irony abound, perhaps as a blessing, to make life unpredictable, frustrating our ability to be in control and to know it all. Failure and ...
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