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- Sarah Berkley loved children, made them her life's work (The Saginaw News)
This year, Sarah M. Berkley's family and friends gathered to celebrate her 80th birthday with a surprise party. Even then, her modest smile belied that she was very ill.
- Varsities to promote Sufi, Punjabi culture - Nation
LAHORE - The provincial universities will be holding cultural activities for the promotion of various Punjabi traditions, culture, poetry, history and language besides organising such function, which will ultimately lead towards promoting Sufism and ...
- Robert Redford, Slammin' - NPR News
Robert Redford on Capitol Hill in April. Source: Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images Going green is all the rage now. Interior designers, car companies... Even McDonald's is doing the green thing. I have family members working for Greenpeace now. Green, my ...
- What’s happening at The Colony Public Library for the month of July: - Star Community Newspapers
Going on vacation or a boat trip on the lake? Stop by the library during the month of July and pick up a free paperback book to enjoy. The library has some great and current titles, and if you lose it, they won’t care. Toddler Time for 2-year-olds ...
- Ty: 'Hip-hop has no culture' (Independent)
"I hate the word alternative," says Ty. "I hate the word off-key, I hate the word jazzy and I hate the word laid-back. I'm not a laid-back person." That's for certain. A frown adds a touch of finality to his mini-rant. Ty has never been a fan of anything that suggests his unconventional existence in British hip-hop should paint him with the "alt" prefix. "I'm probably more disobedient with ...
- A Poet Without Borders - Texas Observer
Texas ObserverA Poet Without BordersTexas Observer, TX - 1 hour agoJoudah is a 37-year-old Palestinian-American poet whose first volume, The Earth in the Attic, won the 2007 Yale Younger Poet Prize, the most coveted ...
- Touting the joys of poetry (Miami Herald)
THE POETRY LIFE: Ten Stories. Baron Wormser. CavanKerry. 196 pages. $18. ''Poetry,'' Auden famously observed in his elegy for Yeats, ''makes nothing happen.'' What isn't often remembered are the words immediately following that trenchant comment: ''it survives. . . . '' It survives even in a digitized age, offering what Frost called a ``momentary stay against confusion.''
- Letters: Don't fear the state (Independent)
Sir: I don't fear the State, Mr Jacobson (Comment, 14 June). I don't suspect it of base motives. I just don't think it's very bright, and nobody enjoys having a fool for a boss. Consider, for a moment, being required to work with an editor who, flying in the teeth of all available evidence, considers himself best placed to tell you how to write your books.
- Nightlife Calendar: 07/18/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Blue Pelican, East Bay Blue 7-10 p.m. July 18; Central Lake; 544-BLUE.
- Congo-Kinshasa: Church Embarks On Activities for the Year of St Paul (AllAfrica.com)
An intense schedule of activities is underway here to mark the Year of St. Paul 2008-2009, which was inaugurated worldwide on June 29.
- Get set for Polk County Fair this weekend - Statesman Journal
Get set for Polk County Fair this weekendStatesman Journal, OR - 2 hours ago7-10 event, which will feature a return of classic favorites — livestock shows, contests ranging from cuisine to poetry, myriad exhibits, food and rides. ...
- Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1,000 national poetry prizes - Canada East
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- A musical salute to the written word - Austin 360 (subscription)
A musical salute to the written wordAustin 360 (subscription), TX - 6 hours agoBy Brad Buchholz Jazz vocalist Tina Marsh has always loved poetry — Mary Oliver, Rumi, Federico GarcĂa Lorca, Marshall Stewart Ball — and she clearly ...
- 'Battlestar' movie to be directed by Olmos - Los Angeles Times
'Battlestar' movie to be directed by OlmosLos Angeles Times, CA - 24 minutes agoThis is more like 'The Iliad'; there are elements of epic poetry, Greek mythology, certainly, and the Bible. The issues are deep, and the stakes are high. ...
- Library hosts TeenSpace program, video gaming tournament - Journal Times
RACINE — On Saturday, the Racine Public Library will host a TeenSpace program and gaming tournament as part of ongoing programming to build relationships with teen patrons while generating library interest. The monthly event features free Internet ...
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