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- Adjusting the Theory of Just War: Gary Bass's 'Freedom's Battle' (The New York Sun)
From the Vietnam War until the end of the Cold War, it was almost axiomatic that liberals would oppose every use of American military power. Defecting from that position was what qualified a former liberal as a neoconservative. But in the last 20 years, as the post-Holocaust promise "never again" was betrayed in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur, parts of the left began to reconsider the virtues of ...
- Rhyme and reason behind poet's idea - This is Sentinel
WORDSMITH Jenny Ryan is planning to combine verse with commerce with a website that sells personalised poetry. And while some will be poignant and some will be funny, the entrepreneur plans to make lots of money... Mrs Ryan, of College Road, Alsager ...
- Arts Blog (The New Statesman)
Armed with three complaints (two about knife crime, one about a goldfish being flushed down the toilet) Britain’s biggest exam board has removed a poem by Carol Ann Duffy from its GCSE English syllabus.
- Happy Birthday, Ingrid Bergman - findingDulcinea
findingDulcineaHappy Birthday, Ingrid BergmanfindingDulcinea, New York - 1 hour agoIn a 1943 New York Times interview, she said that her relatives discouraged her from being an actress but she persisted, memorizing poetry in her room. ...
- Martin Fry from ABC performs with the Regeneration Tour at DTE ... - MLive.com
Martin Fry from ABC performs with the Regeneration Tour at DTE ...MLive.com, MI - 4 hours ago"He was the one who mixed poetry with beats," Fry said. "I went to the Motown museum and I was touched, really touched, by it all. ...
- Prize for writing up for grabs - Worcester News
Prize for writing up for grabsWorcester News, UK - 2 hours ago... a publishing and distribution firm. The Proverse Prize is for an unpublished, publishable book-length work of non-fiction, fiction or poetry, ...
- Anita Heiss puts Koori slant on Sex and the City - News.com.au
Aspiring to be a black version of the Sex And The City supremo is something Heiss , the granddaughter of a member of the stolen generation and daughter of an Austrian immigrant, readily admits to. "I want to be Carrie Bradshaw - I want to be on the ...
- Someone’s got a brand new bag - p2pnet.net
p2pnet.netSomeone’s got a brand new bagp2pnet.net, Canada - Jul 18, 2008An intricately beaded, black satin cape went for $47500; a blue satin one embroidered with ‘Thy Name Is Godfather of Soul’ fetched $35000. ...
- Upstate religious retreats open to visitors (The Buffalo News)
NEW LEBANON -- 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 Sufireligious retreat.
- Artists put positive spin on mental illness - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily HeraldArtists put positive spin on mental illnessChicago Daily Herald, IL - 3 minutes agoBesides opportunities to view or purchase artwork and The Awakenings Review, the coalition will offer music, poetry and refreshments free of charge. ...
- Those wild and crazy 'Saturday Night Live' gals! (Miami Herald)
It's good to be Tina Fey. The bespectacled comedian is not only driving Saturday Night Live ratings with her dead-on Sarah Palin impersonations but she just won two Emmys (Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress) for 30 Rock and clinched a $5 million-plus book deal.
- What’s so different about Karadzic and our terror killers? - Belfast Telegraph
What’s so different about Karadzic and our terror killers?Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - 33 minutes agoHere's a sample of his poetry, which may, of course, have suffered in translation: “Goodbye Assassins, it seems from now on/The gentlefolks' aortas will ...
- NEA Chairman Dana Gioia to leave in 2009 - FOX News
NEW YORK — The confident baritone of Dana Gioia sounded a little hoarse during a recent telephone interview, as it often has since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a job that has exhilarated and exhausted him. "I have ...
- Bestival | Sep 5-7 2008 (My Village Peckham)
Latest - My Bloody Valentine to Headline Bestival Cult 80s band My Bloody Valentine are set to headline Bestival with Aphex Twin, The Breeders and CSS. And if those unmissable names aren’t enough how about the funksome George Clinton, Gary Numan, The Human League, Foals, DJ Yoda and, continuing the retro vibe The Wedding Present.
- For poor Kalina students, lessons are Must - Daily News & Analysis
For poor Kalina students, lessons are MustDaily News & Analysis, India - 12 hours agoReciting poetry or making it into a story gets their interest,” said Sawant. Not just this, school children can also call the channel on 26525366/67 to talk ...
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