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- For simple perfection, think Manhattan - AZCentral.com
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme ...
- Kay Goldstein: Putting Life On Pause: 3 Mini-Meditations For People Who Don't Have Time To Meditate (HuffingtonPost)
Life is certainly not simple now, but we humans have gotten in the habit of making it more complicated. "Do more" is the message from...
- "Laugh-In" funnyman Dick Martin's life remembered - Newsday
"Laugh-In" funnyman Dick Martin's life rememberedNewsday, NY - 5 hours agoOther times, Henry Gibson, clutching a flower, would recite nonsensical poetry or Arte Johnson would impersonate a Nazi spy. "Laugh-In" astounded audiences. ...
- Greatest Generation meets young generation - Cape Cod Times
Greatest Generation meets young generationCape Cod Times, MA - 3 hours agoAn English class translated their reaction to Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" into poetry, essays and PowerPoint presentations. ...
- Europe - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source (Mail and Guardian)
Remember me? A Macedonian journalist suspected of kidnapping, raping and killing elderly women before writing reports about the murders died in prison on Monday.
- IRAQ: A pilgrimage of hope - Los Angeles Times Blogs
It was the place where Iraq’s sectarian war began. This week, the city of Samarra and its ruined shrine once again became a place of peaceful pilgrimage for thousands of Shiite Muslims. A bombing on Feb. 22, 2006, destroyed Al Askari shrine’s ...
- Community Calendar: 08/07/08 - The Carrboro Citizen
Community Calendar: 08/07/08The Carrboro Citizen, NC - Aug 7, 2008Open Mic —poetry, music & short fiction. Tuesdays, 7pm, Market Street Books & Maps, Southern Village. 933-5111, marketstreetbooks.com Eat, Pray, ...
- Fear of losing children fuelled Cowichan Valley murder, court told (Victoria Times Colonist)
DUNCAN -- The thought of losing his three children to another man filled accused killer Dragan Jojic with terror, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
- Kayak vs. Canoe: sports car vs. truck - The Keene Sentinel (subscription)
Kayak vs. Canoe: sports car vs. truckThe Keene Sentinel (subscription), NH - 9 hours agoThere are tandem kayaks and given time and effort, these can also achieve a stunning poetry in motion. The kayak is faster. Light and close to the water, ...
- My Week In Media: Saree Makdisi (Independent)
Last week I watched... Hadrian on BBC2. I love that type of historical documentary, and I'm going to the exhibition at the British Museum. He had such a big impact on Britain, both because of the wall and his imperial policy.
- Grant hopes to put human face on day labor site - Portland Tribune
Day laborers wait in the December rain at Southeast Sixth Avenue and Ankeny Street for possible work. The city of Portland is providing a grant to help a day labor site reach out to the community. Despite ongoing controversy about the city’s day ...
- Video: Sue shows how to fill Little Rhubarb Angel Cakes (Park Rapids Enterprise)
Click on the play button to start the video. Adobe Flash Player 9 is required to view video in full screen mode. 05/28/2008 Third graders, Ally Vaudrin and Tatum Mercer recited the poem “Ickkle me, pickle me, tickle me, too,†during the poetry extravaganza in Coral Schmitz’s class recently.
- City return for Cohen - Manchester Online
City return for CohenManchester Online, UK - 7 hours agoAs dark as it gets, you still feel that beauty is truth. “He makes something beautiful out of this blackness. He finds shades in the blackness that feel ...
- Palestinian poet Darwish critically ill: officials (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry Palestinians believe has given a voice to their suffering, lay critically ill on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas, a Palestinian official said.
- Eric Cantona: Still the king of England? - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukEric Cantona: Still the king of England?Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 4 hours agoIt's 11 years since Eric Cantona retired from mixing artistry with mayhem on the football pitch, and blending poetry with mind-blowing madness off it and, ...
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