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- Obama hails Madiba for changing lives of blacks (SABC News)
In a recorded message from US Democratic presidential candidate, Barak Obama, he thanked Madiba for his role in uplifting the lives of black people. Obama says he entered politics after hearing about Madiba's determination to liberate his people.
- HBO series to feature locals (The Ann Arbor News)
Filming continued in Ann Arbor this week for an upcoming HBO documentary series that will feature six local high school students. The local students are among those competing in the Brave New Voices National Youth Poetry Slam Festival in Washington, D.C., in July.
- 2b or not 2b: David Crystal on why texting is good for language (Guardian Unlimited)
Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling
- Boardwalk in Cape Town - July 1, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk in Cape Town - July 1, 2008Tonight, South Africa - 5 hours agoProgramme includes narration, dance, song and praise poetry, Western choral, fusion of jazz and folk song, African choral, gumboot dancing and drama. ...
- Global Gorecaster's 10-year challenge - WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDailyGlobal Gorecaster's 10-year challengeWorldNetDaily, OR - 10 minutes agoOn the lighter side, according to Robert Redford, there's a different, less drastic way we can help save the planet: Poetry. The "actor/activist" (today's ...
- Shelf Life - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeShelf LifeBoston Globe, United States - Jun 15, 2008Louisa Solano, who owned the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for 32 years, has lived her life on the margin between town and gown. Born in Cambridge, she is a ...
- Art exhibit revisits cannery strike - Register Pajaronian
Art exhibit revisits cannery strikeRegister Pajaronian, CA - 3 hours ago21, will also include a wealth of talks, a procession, workshops, poetry and songs about the Watsonville Cannery Strike. Twenty years after the end of a ...
- Celebrating our gaylit - Toronto Star
Celebrating our gaylitToronto Star, Canada - 3 hours agoThere's the first lesbian collection to win the GG award for poetry, the country's first openly gay poetry collection, and even a straight novel with many ...
- { a vagabond's verses } - Concord Monitor
{ a vagabond's verses }Concord Monitor, NH - 42 minutes agoKinsey, who lives in Vermont and has written five other books of poetry, drew inspiration for the book from an elderly man he knew many years ago. ...
- Webster Defines it an Author Refines it, "Womanhood" a Poet's ... - PR Web (press release)
Webster Defines it an Author Refines it, "Womanhood" a Poet's ...PR Web (press release), WA - 5 minutes agoThis gifted author candidly shares the painful tribulations and jubilant triumphs of womanhood through her inspirational body of original poetry. ...
- Chicago theater breezes into Voodoo Mystere (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Two theatrical blasts from the Windy City -- one challenging, one a romp -- can now be seen at the newly christened Voodoo Mystere Lounge in the French Quarter.
- Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'language' (Torontoist)
Following the 2005 crash of an Air France A340, the airline is suing the GTAA for having a ravine at the end of runway 24L instead of a safe overrun margin. A coroner's inquest into a 1978 crash at Pearson recommended installing a 300-metre safety apron, but nothing became of it.
- Czech Embaasy in Seoul to show "Spring in My Hometown" on Ewha Campus - The Seoul Times
Czech Embaasy in Seoul to show "Spring in My Hometown" on Ewha CampusThe Seoul Times, South Korea - 16 minutes agoI think TS Eliot thought that way too, which is why I liked his poetry. He thought that the romantic poets, like Wordsworth, always say one thing but the ...
- Stalker banned from contacting ex - Harborough Mail
Stalker banned from contacting exHarborough Mail, UK - 2 hours ago... items at his home revealing his obsession with her, including a diary detailing her daily whereabouts, binoculars, unsent letters and books of poetry. ...
- Planning a perfect Father's Day for dad - Casa Grande Valley Newspapers
Planning a perfect Father's Day for dadCasa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ - May 28, 2008This was back in the dark days of cologne-giving, which mercifully came to an end after the horrible 1986 tragedy in Cincinnati wherein a 72-year-old man's ...
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