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- Taliban use ring tones to spread the word - Globe and Mail
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a ...
- Local author Andrew Davidson sold his first (!) book for over $1 million - but he hasn't let it go to his head (Uptown Magazine)
That guy in the corner at a Corydon hangout sold his debut novel for $1.25 million. Andrew Davidson is quiet, funny, and dressed in black.
- An unlikely warrior (Toronto Star)
Bill Schiller was the Star's European Bureau chief when he interviewed Radovan Karadzic in January 1994.
- Obituaries for August 3 (The Capital)
Today's obituaries recognize: William Herndon, John Lipp III, Thomas Smith and Gayle Wright.
- UNISSA To Offer More Masters Of Arts Programmes - BruDirect
Bandar Seri Begawan - Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA) hopes to offer more Masters of Arts (MA) programmes in the near future. Qualified candidates will also have the opportunity to pursue their Doctorate (PhD) studies at the Islamic ...
- Poetic License by Tom Chandler: How a prompt became a ‘First Breath’ - Providence Journal
Providence JournalPoetic License by Tom Chandler: How a prompt became a ‘First Breath’Providence Journal, RI - 23 minutes agoHeather Sullivan’s poem, “First Breath,” is the result of an in-class writing exercise for the Writer’s Circle Poetry Workshop, led by Barbara Schweitzer. ...
- Travel 411: Stars, politicians among authors at book festival (TCPalm.com)
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival on Sept. 27 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The event was started by first lady Laura Bush as a way to celebrate reading and books.
- Darwish to Have a State Funeral (TheCelebrityCafe.com)
Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet of Palestine, is to have a state funeral, the first since the death of Yasser Arafat.
- What can't be taught (The Washington Examiner)
"You teach English? I'd better watch what I say!" pops up frequently in the nonclassroom life of all English teachers. I used to complain silently, "As though all English teachers do is correct grammar!" yet there are limitations to what we can and can't teach.
- The Fourth Of July - Our Nation's 232nd Birthday - Southern Maryland Online
The Fourth Of July - Our Nation's 232nd BirthdaySouthern Maryland Online, MD - 1 hour agoThe words, written by Jefferson, have the ring of poetry. "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by ...
- Texas & Neighbors: Halloween hotel package in New Orleans - Dallas Morning News
Texas & Neighbors: Halloween hotel package in New OrleansDallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour agoThe small northeastern New Mexico ranching town of Nara Visa will host a cowboy poetry and song gathering Sept. 19-21. This small, traditional gathering ...
- Ineffable lightness of being Cesare and Jean Marie Syjuco (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Scrolling through avant-garde artist Cesare A. X. Syjuco’s on-line blog is an exercise in momentary displacement. There is nothing there; not a single line of his famous cryptexts or those raging dialogues between debating punctuation marks.
- Tories propose $500 fine for illegal downloading (CTV Toronto)
Industry Minister Jim Prentice discusses new copyright legislation at a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, June 12, 2008.
- Sunday, July 20, 2008 (Times of Malta)
Church has lost control over feast celebrations (1) - Joseph M. Calleja, San Ġwann It was not the anger present in the words of Vince Azzopardi, president of Għaqda Melita Banda San Ġużepp, that shocked me, but the arrogant...
- Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning - The Chronicle Herald
I MUST BEGIN my review of Johanna Skibsrud’s Late Nights with wild Cowboys (Gaspereau Press, $18.95), her debut poetry collection, with two disclosures: 1) she was once my student in a class at the University of Toronto; 2) her publisher is also my ...
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