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- Mighty Yeats is pure poetry in motion after Ascot Gold Cup treble - This is London
Mighty Yeats is pure poetry in motion after Ascot Gold Cup trebleThis is London, UK - 15 minutes agoEarlier, Cilla Black, celebrating 45 years in show business, handed out the silverware to the connections of South Central, the winner of the opening race. ...
- Newsstand Junkie: Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo still together (New York Daily News)
There are two big stories in the mags this week. First, despite weeks of reports to the contrary, Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are doing fine. (Cue sigh of relief from John Mayer.)
- FBI: Ivins held identical anthrax strain - Christian Science Monitor
FBI: Ivins held identical anthrax strainChristian Science Monitor, MA - 30 minutes ago... a co-worker some poetry he had composed. "I'm a little dream-self, short and stout/ I'm the other half of Bruce – when he lets me out," one poem began. ...
- Gdynia 2008 Literary Awards - Thenews.pl
Gdynia 2008 Literary AwardsThenews.pl, Poland - 16 hours agoThis year’s Awards event included evening poetry reading by the nominated authors Milosz Biedrzycki, Zbigniew Machej, Joanna Mueller, Adam Wiedemann and ...
- Can Game Theory save our at-risk kids? - San Francisco Gate
Over wonton soup, Patricia Johnson confessed she spent the entire day watching "Friday Night Lights" on DVD. She was trying to beat a flu, and the 2006 television show -- centered on a small-town football coach, high school athletes, and their ...
- Many religious retreats in upstate New York open to guests (Canoe Travel)
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Don't Miss: Bagpipers, hip-hoppers, psychos (Prague Daily Monitor)
The Bagpipe Festival comprises marches, meetings with music in local pubs, a historical fair and an arts symposium.
- Live alone and like it (Poughkeepsie Journal)
"The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence," wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book "Live Alone and Like It."
- What can't be taught (The Washington Examiner)
"You teach English? I'd better watch what I say!" pops up frequently in the nonclassroom life of all English teachers. I used to complain silently, "As though all English teachers do is correct grammar!" yet there are limitations to what we can and can't teach.
- Your tributes to Mahmoud Darwish (BBC News)
BBC website readers have been sending in their memories of Mahmoud Darwish
- 'Breath' by Tim Winton - Los Angeles Times
'Breath' by Tim WintonLos Angeles Times, CA - 47 minutes agoIt achieves that essential quality of a short novel: Its poetry becomes its imperative, its motivating and most risky venture. "Breath" is a coming-of-age ...
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors (Independent)
There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an oversized book called Love Letters of Great Men, and entertains Mr Big with flowery passages from Byron and Bonaparte. It's a scene that had SATC fans rushing out to bookshops, only to discover that while the letters quoted were real, the book was never more than a Hollywood prop.
- Love and War Interpreted By Teenagers in "Lysistrata's Children" - NewsBlaze
NewsBlazeLove and War Interpreted By Teenagers in "Lysistrata's Children"NewsBlaze, CA - 1 hour agoTickets are $15 for adults; $5 for seniors, teachers and students. Ticketing and information are available online at www.theaterforthenewcity.net.
- Frost vandals given poetic justice - Fort Francis Times
Using “The Road Not Taken” and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways—and the redemptive power of poetry.
- Edwards: I Lied. Can I Go to Denver Now? - Slate
Edwards: 'I Lied. It's Friday. Can I Go to Denver Now?' John Edwards finally confesses, sort of, on ABC News . He admits he lied repeatedly about his affair with Rielle Hunter, but denies he's the father of her child and specifically seems to be ...
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