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- The heart's darkest chamber - The Australian
HERODOTUS thought no man could be judged happy until the end of life and the early church, taking its lead from St Augustine, persisted with its version of this post-mortem attitude to happiness: only the soul, in perfect union with God, could find ...
- This Date In History - Monday, August 4 - CBS 2
NEW YORK (AP) ― Today is Monday, August 4th, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 4th, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people ...
- Five Short Films About American Poets, Now on DVD - Mediabistro.com
Receive mediabistro.com's Daily GalleyCat Feed via email Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Media Newsfeed via email. Cambridge University Press is looking for a Library & Online Sales & Marketing Manager . See the next featured job ...
- Awards ceremony held for creative writing contest - Kinston Free Press
Top entries in the Creative Writing Contest at the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library were recognized at a May 13 award ceremony. Friends of the Library sponsored the 24th annual Creative Writing Contest. The contest received tremendous response ...
- Interview: Richard Schnell on the International Haiku Festival - Vermont Public Radio
Interview: Richard Schnell on the International Haiku FestivalVermont Public Radio, VT - 5 hours agoProfessor Richard Schnell of SUNY Plattsburgh says Haiku can vary--in English, it's generally regarded as any poem of fewer than 17 syllables, Un- rhymed, ...
- Looking At Tazieh, The Hub - The Herald
Looking At Tazieh, The HubThe Herald, UK - 42 minutes agoMore than mere anthropology, this astonishing display of wordless poetry is a humbling portrait of a culture at one with its sense of grief.
- A Reading of 'A Clock Stopped,' By Emily Dickinson - The Epoch Times
When is a clock not a clock? That's the opening riddle to this cryptic poem by Emily Dickinson. "A clock stopped/ Not the mantel's ..." In these two lines, we travel from the actual to the symbolic, from the stuff of common observation to the ...
- Parente: The intervening variable - Milford Daily News
Parente: The intervening variableMilford Daily News, USA - 4 hours agoThe crew, according to the captain, had varied talents in music, poetry, story telling, and was quite congenial. The captain oversaw the loading of supplies ...
- Sly, spare work elevates poet - News & Observer
News & ObserverSly, spare work elevates poetNews & Observer, NC - Jul 17, 2008The requirements are few, beyond "raising the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. ...
- Karns City High School Senior Dies In Crash (KDKA Pittsburgh)
A high school student who was killed in a car crash only about a week before graduation is being remembered. Friends, family and classmates are mourning the death of 18-year-old Alia Hackbarth of Chicora.
- A tragedy is unfolding, but not at Westminster - Daily Telegraph
Tragedy is the most over-worked word in politics. No leader ever founders because of rubbish policies. Most eventually have the T-word applied to them. John Major seized it for himself, calling his government "a Greek tragedy". Better, I suppose, to ...
- Motorcyclist jailed in passenger’s death - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Pier 1's top executive tells shareholders he's on the right track Love and marriage bloom in one man’s garden The longtime teacher who wrote poetry was her church’s historian Barnett Shale drillers work overtime to recruit college graduates ...
- Play review: 'Twelfth Night' at Boscobel in Garrison - Times Herald-Record
So begins Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" as Duke Orsino craves to win the lady Olivia's love. She refuses to see him on the grounds that she still mourns the death of her brother. Viola also believes that she has lost her twin brother, Sebastian, in a ...
- Minority report: Gay Indians demand a British apology - The Independent Blogs
First it was slavery, then it was looting the world's architectural treasures and hauling them back to our museums. Now it is homophobia. Over the years Britain has been asked to apologise for many historical wrongs but activists in India are about ...
- The opinion pages: mostly a man's world - San Francisco Chronicle
The opinion pages: mostly a man's worldSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 6 hours ago"It's not like writing the great American novel," Orenstein said, "it's not poetry. There are basic concepts that are pretty easy to share with people. ...
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