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- America Back on Track... for Monday, July 14th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Katharine Hepburn who said, "To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time." Some observations on the news... [Erratum: Elaine Chao is not married to Phil Gramm ...
- YORK NEIGHBORS: What's Up - Maine Sunday Telegram
The Rusty French Club will meet from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library on Main Street. The club is open to all who desire to practice or improve their French-speaking proficiency in a relaxed setting that is more social ...
- Community Briefs (7/9) - Ahwatukee Foothills News
The Ahwatukee Lions Club has appointed a new slate of officers for the 2008-09 fiscal year. Serving as president is Jodi Erwin, first vice president is Mark Wilson, second vice president is Charlie Miles and third vice president is Gretchen Fuller ...
- Rachel Sage Releases Her Eighth Disc, Chandelier - ACED Magazine
Rachel Sage Releases Her Eighth Disc, ChandelierACED Magazine, FL - 6 hours agoHer road song "Site Seeing" begins like a café poetry reading then blooms into sound. The title track "Chandelier" explores the what-ifs of life altering ...
- Gary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - Forbes
$100,000 lifetime achievement award is one of largest to poets CHICAGO, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- Poet Gary Snyder is the winner of the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation, the ...
- A Fan's Notes - Time
In how fiction works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 265 pages), James Wood tells a story from Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March, a novel that since its publication in 1932 has probably been read by only two people, namely James Wood and Joseph Roth. A ...
- To Promote New York, Handlers Take Steps to Reclaim ‘I ♥ NY’ - New York Times
In business, as in romance, familiarity often breeds, if not contempt, then indifference. In a new marketing plan, the “I ♥ NY” logo is being reclaimed. Sellers of unofficial items face warnings and possibly penalties. Consider, for example ...
- Perugia Murder: What Defense Lawyers Are Planning (Newsweek)
Seattle student Amanda Knox and two others have finally been charged with the Perugia murder of a British student. How their lawyers plan to defend them.
- Fugitive Pieces sucks the poetry and life out of its source material (Phoenix New Times)
Canadian poet Anne Michaels' beautiful 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces — about a Jewish writer immobilized by the memory of his Polish family's murder at the hands of the Nazis — distills tragedy into grief, terror, and a wary romance built on the redemptive power of love and art, and set on ...
- From the Chicago Tribune - Orlando Sentinel
From the Chicago TribuneOrlando Sentinel, FL - 4 hours agoThe Library of Congress announced Thursday that Ryan, whose poetry has been compared with Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th US poet ...
- Nigeria: The State of the Arts - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: The State of the ArtsAllAfrica.com, Washington - 2 hours agoIn poetry, I look forward to the day when and where a national event like the celebration of Nigeria's independence, Children's Day or inauguration of a new ...
- Literary Circle marks 125 years - Fairmont Sentinel
Fairmont SentinelLiterary Circle marks 125 yearsFairmont Sentinel, MN - 1 hour agoCook has won awards for her poetry since 1977, when she won the Collegiate Poetry Contest for “Lyric” magazine. She later joined the League of Minnesota ...
- I never get despondent — Raghib Muradabadi - DAWN Group
RAGHIB Muradabadi, the noted Urdu poet, scholar of Persian and Arabic, who has been a popular figure at mushairas (poetry recitals) in Pakistan and abroad for decades, gave me a pleasant surprise when he showed me his book Tarian dee lo. The book is ...
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- Television programmers take note of the 'Silver Tsunami' as viewers ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
ABC "Dancing with the Stars" is one of the most popular shows with viewers over 50. The oldest baby boomers turn 62 this year. But as we get older as a society, the broadcast networks continue to chase the demographic most prized by advertisers ...
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