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- Saddam feared AIDS, venereal disease - MSNBC
CAIRO, Egypt - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or some other venereal disease during his U.S.-supervised captivity, according to excerpts of his prison writings published in a leading Arab newspaper Monday. The London-based ...
- How to build on a teacher's inspiration - Cape Cod Times
It was October 1974 and Deval Patrick, the ninth-grade boy who would become the governor of Massachusetts, was still feeling his way after moving from South Chicago to study at Milton Academy. While most students were leaving campus for Columbus Day ...
- Clergy in the closet - Washington Blade
The connection between sexual identity and Judeo-Christian values is fraught with complexities, which are explored in detail in “The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir” by poet Honor Moore. The searing chronicle lays bare the dual life of her father ...
- Brendan Gleeson - Hartford Courant
Persepolis Sony, $29.95; Blu-ray, $38.96 Marjane Satrapi’s graphic-novel memoir “Persepolis” depicts her girlhood, from struggling with her secular family in post-shah Iran to jetting off to school in Vienna, where she faced a... Here are ...
- Around our Towns - Today's Sunbeam - NJ.com
Today's Sunbeam - NJ.comAround our TownsToday's Sunbeam - NJ.com, NJ - 4 hours agoStudents from Kindergarten, first and second grades recited poetry about trees and heard stories of trees planted in the school yard the past year and ...
- Gowdy, Zolf win Ontario’s Trillium Book Awards - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Gowdy, Zolf win Ontario’s Trillium Book AwardsTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 35 minutes agoGowdy won for her novel Helpless (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection Human Resources (Coach House Books). ...
- A writer’s translator - Thanh Nien Daily
Thanh Nien DailyA writer’s translatorThanh Nien Daily, Vietnam - 2 hours agoLan successfully tried her hand at poetry in 2005, when her collection La minh (Being Myself) won the HCMC Writer Association’s poetry award. ...
- MR HILARIOUS - CNET Asia
MR HILARIOUS is Mr. Hilarious (vocals), Mr. Ridiculous (guitars and effects), Roger (bass guitar), and Donald "Donny the Drummer" Garret (drums). The last name of Roger has always been withheld due to the bassits extreme devotion to his family and ...
- Sister Islands Person of the Week - Alva Petrona Sutton - Cayman Net News
Cayman Net NewsSister Islands Person of the Week - Alva Petrona SuttonCayman Net News, Cayman Islands - 2 hours agoMs Sutton enjoys writing poems and doing dub poetry, which she has been doing from a tender age. She explains that her tone and grammar has changed because ...
- Could you pass the 11-plus? Exam papers first used in the 1950s puts ... - Daily Mail
Their very name still deeply divides opinion. For some, the Eleven-Plus exams, which determined whether a child would go to a grammar school or the academically inferior secondary modern, set the educational benchmark. For others, they were hated ...
- Floating Bridges - All About Jazz
Floating BridgesAll About Jazz, PA - 1 hour agoThe integration of the reading with the music is so seamless as to avoid comparison to most jazz/poetry collaborations. In all, a beautiful connection to ...
- Angus Calder: Historian, critic and poet whose 'The People's War' challenged conventional wisdom on wartime Britain (Independent)
Angus Calder was for many years a conspicuous figure in the Edinburgh literary scene, but those who knew his prodigious output and his teaching career realised that there was much more to him than that genial presence in poetry readings, theatre, pubs and literary events all over Scotland.
- Jonathan Holden's "Car Showroom" (Seattle Times)
I may be a little sappy, but I think that almost everyone is doing the best he or she can, despite all sorts of obstacles. This poem by Jonathan...
- Living in fear (Guardian Unlimited)
This playful and knowing first collection is fuelled throughout by a strong sense of lyricism. Take the piece "Before a Make-up Bag", a mock-hymn to the creators of cosmetics: "Praise him for the angel face / and second chance of it / the would you care to dance of it."
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif - Orlando Sentinel
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
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