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- The reporter next door - Mercer Island Reporter
Rachel Van Gelder, 12, has started her own newspaper and the entire neighborhood is involved. In late May, the first issue of The Hoot, a newspaper covering the events and personalities of Mercer Terrace Drive on the South end, went to press. Van ...
- OPINION: The anger, the longing, the hope —Uri Avnery - Daily Times
OPINION: The anger, the longing, the hope —Uri AvneryDaily Times, Pakistan - 1 hour agoHe was a master of classical Arabic, and equally at home with Western and Israeli poetry. Many believe that he was the greatest Arab poet, and one of the ...
- Joan Aragone: Play games to improve your brain (San Mateo County Times)
As we age, our brains function less efficiently than they did when we were younger.That isn't news to anybody over 50 who knows the experience of forgetting a name immediately on introduction or grasping for words to describe a common object.
- Poetry prize submissions sought - Leelanau Enterprise
Poetry prize submissions soughtLeelanau Enterprise, MI - 19 minutes agoThe Dunes Review literary journal is seeking submissions for its annual William J. Shaw Memorial Prize for Poetry. The contest is open to all Michigan poets ...
- KOEHN: U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! (Hollister Free Lance)
The headline above was the chant taking place at Cigar Bar & Grill in San Francisco last Saturday. I was there for a friend's bachelor party when before I knew what was happening, I was huddling with several hundred strangers.
- A defense lobbyist who favors an ax - Thehill.com
The leather cowboy boots should be the first hint. And then there’s the almost unnoticeable piercing in his left ear — not exactly a Washington staple. But the secret is out when David Morrison starts talking about his guitars: Music runs through ...
- Dying, debt-ridden Singapore founder (Straits Times)
HE IS known as Singapore's founder, and has given his name to several companies and schools. But the life of Sir Stamford Raffles is given a playful twist in an irreverent play called The Last Temptation Of Stamford Raffles, one of the headliners at the OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival.
- School honors life of education legend - Asbury Park Press
School honors life of education legendAsbury Park Press, NJ - 10 minutes ago... tribute to her after her death, also holds the Potter family crest, as well as old books of poetry and a geography book for elementary school students. ...
- Raising Bob Costas: Is Memorizing Sports Trivia Good for the Brain? - Wall Street Journal
Now I know how Marv Albert's parents must have felt. Shooting hoops behind our house recently, my 9-year-old suggested that we pretend to be great basketball teams from the past. "I'll be the 1985-1986 Celtics," he said, "and you can be the '71-'72 ...
- War Zone: A Preview of the Fall 2008 Off-Broadway Season (Playbill)
War and politics, two of the main things on the American public's minds this fall, will also be mulled by the Off-Broadway theatre this fall.
- Natural Nipomo: A spectacular place to visit - Adobe Press
Natural Nipomo: A spectacular place to visitAdobe Press, CA - 11 hours agoThey spread word of the dunes far and wide, and left a legacy of dune-inspired poetry. Kathleen Goddard Jones, a woman who spent years fighting to keep a ...
- International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival opens in Tbilisi - ITAR-TASS
International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival opens in TbilisiITAR-TASS, Russia - 32 minutes agoTBILISI, July 17 (Itar-Tass) - The second International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival with the participation of Russian poets from more than 20 countries ...
- On This Day in History: August 4 He Was Called ‘Mad Shelley’ - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
On This Day in History: August 4 He Was Called ‘Mad Shelley’Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - Aug 4, 2008One newspaper reported, “Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned; now he knows whether there is a God or no. ...
- What's cooking? - Times of India
What's cooking?Times of India, India - 2 hours agoOr why would your wife who loves English poetry start sprouting shayari? Picking up fights: Having fights is a sign of a healthy relationship. ...
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet - nationalist to Communist and then kingmaker - Hindustan Times
Harkishan Singh Surjeet - nationalist to Communist and then kingmakerHindustan Times, India - 1 hour agoHarkishan Singh Bassi changed his surname to ‘Surjeet’ while trying his hand writing poetry in his youth. Surjeet lived the simple life. ...
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