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- Aretha Franklin to sing at Obama inauguration - Kentucky.com
WELT ONLINEAretha Franklin to sing at Obama inaugurationKentucky.com, KY - Dec 22, 2008Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King, Jr., was scheduled to offer the event's benediction. ...Video: Obama Gay Inaugural Diss? CBSPresident-elect under fire over invitation to anti-gay minister Irish TimesHigh culture meets 'homophobia' at Obama inauguration IndependentSovo.com - guardian.co.ukall 2,564 news articles
- Letter From SC: When It Comes To Torture, Always Say Never - OfficialWire
OfficialWireLetter From SC: When It Comes To Torture, Always Say NeverOfficialWire, NY - 7 hours agoAs Frederick Buechner wrote, ‘A Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there is no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a ...
- Urdu group holds poetry session (The Peninsula)
DOHA: The Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu Hind Qatar recently held a poetry session dedicated to Jigar Moradabadi, a pioneer in the field of classical Urdu poetry.
- How Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman did love scenes for Australia - News.com.au
A COY Hugh Jackman has revealed more details of what it was like to film steamy love scenes with Nicole Kidman for Australia. Jackman told People.com today that it was easy to film, and their spouses were not on set while the romantic scenes were ...
- Havazelet, Kessler win Oregon Book Awards - Oregonian
Barry Lopez and Ehud Havazelet provided an emotional end to the Oregon Book Awards Sunday night. Lopez received the Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award from artist Rick Bartow, a Newport native and longtime friend who is of Yurok ...
- Speeding cars, fleeting art - Philadelphia Inquirer
Speeding cars, fleeting artPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 10 hours agoBut it's a lot like the skateboarders in LOVE Park, or the singer-songwriters and the ad hoc string quartets from the Curtis Institute that spring up in ...
- Harold Pinter 1930-2008 online only - Socialistworker.co.uk
Harold Pinter 1930-2008 online onlySocialistworker.co.uk, UK - 8 hours agoHis voice was expressed in poetry, too, where his succinct wit was often employed to powerful political effect. Pinter’s artistic genius was inseparable ...
- Department seeks laureate suggestions (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs is accepting nominations through Jan. 30 for Iowa Poet Laureate, a two-year renewable appointment intended to recognize the importance of poetry in Iowans' everyday life.
- Show makes lifelong memories - Sun-Sentinel.com
Show makes lifelong memoriesSun-Sentinel.com, FL - 1 hour agoThe words "all" and "old" are underlined and Gordon said she weaves lyrics into poetry lessons on rhythm and the meaning of new words. ...
- Child brides spark national debate in world’s largest Muslim country (Gulf Times)
JAKARTA: Indonesian Muslim clerics who claim to be protecting vulnerable women by backing a new anti-pornography law have come out in defence of a fellow preacher who married a 12-year-old village girl.
- Indonesian clerics take child brides, back anti porn bill (TODAYonline)
Preacher Pujianto Cahyo Widiyanto (centre) sits among his first wife Ummi Hani (right) and his 12 years-old second wife Lutfiana Ulfa. Indonesian Muslim clerics who claim to be protecting girls by backing a new anti-pornography law are themselves marrying minors and condoning child sex, according to lawmakers and child welfare activists.
- Battle of the Bands @ Kilarney's - Orange County Weekly
Beth Stirnaman shoots Great Big Things, The Unmentioned and Duress as they duke it out for the top spot during the Battle of the Bands at Kilarney's in Huntington Beach on 11/26. Duress won top honors of this semi-final round, while The Unmentioned ...
- TRAHC slates host of festivities at the Regional Arts Center (Texarkana Gazette)
This week will see lots of festive activity at the Regional Arts Center. Thursday’s “Occasional Thursday” series continues with Write! On Art writing-competition winners being announced from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Regional Arts Center. The event is free, and refreshments begin at 6:30 p.m.
- $100 goes a long way when helping others - Houston Chronicle
Karen Anderson turned her $100 into $36,000 to buy coats for every student at Galveston's Ball High School, and then some. The markets were crashing and Christmas was coming when Pastor Doug Ferguson stepped up to the pulpit of Houston's Grace ...
- Whittier's white Christmas - Eagle-Tribune
The great American poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, was born in Haverhill in 1807. Having lived in Amesbury and Danvers, among other places, his poetry captures the essence of life in the Merrimack Valley, on the North Shore and in Southern New ...
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