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- The Internet Library: rip, mix or burn? - Open Democracy
Readers of my earlier essays will be somewhat shocked to hear me say that peer-to-peer data distribution systems and their users need to be held to account. While a valuable piece of technology in their own right, they are often used in a manner ...
- A mission to fight blindness - Albany Times Union
A mission to fight blindnessAlbany Times Union, NY - 8 minutes agoSaima Ammar, who heard her future husband read books and poetry on the radio, later met him through a friend. Their 10-day visit took them to Washington and ...
- Gambian 9th Roots Festival Commemorates Enslaved Africans (PRWeb)
Today descendants of enslaved Africans begin a week-long pilgramage through The Gambia in memory of their enslaved ancestors. The journey is part of the "9th International Roots Festival" which opened in the Gambia on Saturday May 31, 2008 with a carnival of jubilant ethnic groups sharing their cultural heritage through song and dance. The festival ends on June 7, 2008. (PRWeb Jun 2, 2008) ...
- Anthony Burgess Geoffrey Hill - Times Online
Anthony Burgess Geoffrey HillTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoOne has the impression of so powerful a desire for self-effacement, as a poet if not, which would be unseemly, as one who professes poetry, that a perhaps ...
- Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book Awards (The New Zealand Herald)
The finalists of the Montana New Zealand Book Award have been named - and the fiction writers in the running are all women.
- Rahsaan Patterson doesn't do labels - San Francisco Chronicle
Rahsaan Patterson doesn't do labelsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoAnd like the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the stand-up comedy of Richard Pryor and the music of Patterson's trans-Atlantic peer Amy Winehouse, much of what's ...
- Black Dog Music Fest to feature 20-plus acts on July 27 (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
The July 27 Black Dog Music Fest, featuring some of the top folk, alt-country and rock acts in the area, is a benefit for the Music Through the Ages Fund, a music-education concept honoring the late Dennis Monroe.
- Letters to the Editor: (Berkeley Daily Planet)
I love New York—the sprawling cement, the bustle of the non-stop traffic, the throngs of people pushing through the sidewalks, as long shadows are cast on the street below from enormous skyscrapers.
- 19 Tips For Cheering Yourself Up -- From 200 Years Ago - Huffingtonpost.com
While reading a biography of English writer Sydney Smith, Hesketh Pearson's The Smith of Smiths , I stumbled across a letter. In 1820, Smith wrote a letter to an unhappy friend, Lady Morpeth, in which he offered her tips for cheering up. I have my ...
- Jenna Bush gets hitched, Tom Cruise's movie gets postponed, Suge ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The ceremony was bi-partisan as the happy couple was married by the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell ... a Barack Obama supporter. The bride wore Oscar de la Renta, the mother of the bride wore the Blue Room draperies. First Daughter Jenna Bush, 26, married ...
- Obituaries for the week of June 11, 2008 (The Fountain Hills Times)
Bob lost his fight with cancer on May 29, 2008 in Surprise, Ariz. with loved ones at his side. He was born and raised in Sacramento, Calif. on Feb. 7, 1937 and attended local schools.
- Alesia: Madison beer fest soaking up popularity - Wisconsin State Journal
It's too popular. On a recent Sunday morning, Great Taste sold all of its 5,000 tickets in seemingly the time it takes to pour a tap beer. Despite limiting sales to in-person sites and mail order — nothing online — each $35 ticket was sold within ...
- Around Town - St. Petersburg Times
Nursing mothers class: St. Joseph's Women's Hospital presents a seminar on nursing mothers and breast-feeding. The session covers the basics of feeding, including how the body produces milk, proper positioning and latch-on techniques. 6 to 9 p.m ...
- Destination: Southwestern France - Salon
Put aside stories of a freezing, exotic locale full of igloos and kooks in favor of these portraits of the hardscrabble -- and magical -- Northern state. If you tell people you're taking a trip to southern France, they're likely to assume you mean ...
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