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- Richard Deitsch: Remembering Jim McKay (Sports Illustrated)
Each week, SI.com's Richard Deitsch reports on newsmakers from the world of TV, radio and the Web. This week's column focuses solely on the life and career of Jim McKay, the pioneer sportscaster who passed away Saturday of natural causes at age 86.
- Scholarship winners earn top grades in school and high marks in ... - Caledon Enterprise
Scholarship winners earn top grades in school and high marks in ...Caledon Enterprise, Canada - 49 minutes agoShe is interested in reading, writing poetry and choreographing dance performances and will study health sciences in university. ...
- Johnson is most precise for U.S. women's gymnastics (Houston Chronicle)
Shawn Johnson was 9 months old when she performed her first gymnastics routine of note, climbing out of her crib, plopping to the floor and crawling off in search of her mom.
- The Master - The National
The MasterThe National, United Arab Emirates - May 26, 2008He visited Paris before returning to Barcelona, to the cafes and bars of Spanish poets and painters, where he produced the sombre, often melancholic ...
- Academics unearth UK's oldest joke - Economic Times
Academics unearth UK's oldest jokeEconomic Times, India - 8 minutes agoThey found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads: "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants ...
- The Business Of Dialogue (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
Dialogue is a funny business, particularly when it happens to be dialogue of the inter-civilisational and inter-religious kind.
- Sturgeon honored as HSE Teacher of the Year - Indianapolis Star
Sturgeon honored as HSE Teacher of the YearIndianapolis Star, United States - 1 hour agoHe makes every student pick a theme song -- his is Neil Diamond's "I'm Alive" -- and has poetry sessions that feature student performances. ...
- AP Top News at 3:36 a.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Cheered by a roaring crowd, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is our ...
- United we stand; divided we fall - Tulsa World
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of ...
- Akashic Launches Classic Reprint Series - Publishers Weekly
Akashic Launches Classic Reprint SeriesPublishers Weekly, NY - 2 hours agoAkashic Books publisher Johnny Temple said the new series will initially focus on radical African American literary figures, “but we may not stick to that ...
- Love, cinema, Dylan and stardom - BBC News
BBC NewsLove, cinema, Dylan and stardomBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoThe director also revealed that when he was sent the screenplay for The Edge of Love it contained very little of Dylan Thomas' poetry. ...
- Book Review: Lines From a Mined Mind - The Words of John Trudell (Blogcritics.org)
Native American activist and poet John Trudell releases a collection of his passionate poems on struggle and resistance to exploitation. John Trudell has released through Fulcrum Publishing an anthology of his poetry from his 25-year recording career and it is a powerful moving read from a man who has a lot to say on the state of the world and how we relate to each other. Mr. Trudell, a Santee ...
- Poet bitten by insects' intrigue (Toronto Star)
Lives of the poets, a continuing series.
- African-American series character is a role model for black girls - Tacoma News Tribune
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In his mind, Derrick Barnes is already casting the film version of his new children's books. Will Smith's daughter, Willow, currently appearing in "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," would play the lead, Ruby Marigold Booker. (But ...
- Farewell Mahmoud Darwish (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Very few poets become the voice of their nation and even fewer succeed in transcending that to become much more. Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was that rare bird who crossed many skies and horizons.
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