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- America Back on Track... for Monday, July 14th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Katharine Hepburn who said, "To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time." Some observations on the news... [Erratum: Elaine Chao is not married to Phil Gramm ...
- Poet's manuscript plea - Hounslow Guardian
A Tolworth author who stopped to ask directions after getting lost in Surbiton said he is “shattered” after a valuable manuscript was stolen from his car. Sohan Lal Saini, 72, of Hamilton Avenue, Tolworth, wants the thieves to return the ...
- Thought Criminal Wins Appeal - Londonist
LondonistThought Criminal Wins AppealLondonist, UK - 3 hours ago... sobriquet "lyrical terrorist", applied not because of a love for rap rabble-rouser MIA but due to her penchant for writing extremist "poetry". ...
- Finalists announced for 2008 Oklahoma Book Awards - Daily Oklahoman
Thirty-two books have been chosen as finalists in the 19th annual Oklahoma Book Awards competition. Winners in the categories of fiction, poetry, design/illustration, children’s/young adult and non-fiction will be announced at the Oklahoma Book ...
- Scholarly, sweet work peels the Anne onion - London Free Press
Scholarly, sweet work peels the Anne onionLondon Free Press, Canada - 1 hour agoAnd overriding all is Anne's love for the Prince Edward Island landscapes to which Maud Montgomery herself always returned. Gammel's richly detailed ...
- Pasternak’s Paths - Moscow News
Pasternak’s PathsMoscow News, Russia - 1 hour agoThe title poem of his 1943 collection, "On Early Trains," describes the journey from Moscow on the electric train and so, following in his footsteps, ...
- Dick Martin of 'Laugh-In' fame dies at 86 (The Globe Gazette)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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. He was 86.
- Taken by the river he loved - Twin Falls Times-News
Months before making his final whitewater voyage, Bill Studebaker foresaw taking his last breath in an Idaho river. The body of Studebaker, who drowned in a whitewater kayaking accident Friday on the East Fork of the South Fork of the Salmon River ...
- First African-American to hold post in Md. Episcopal Diocese - Baltimore Sun
First African-American to hold post in Md. Episcopal DioceseBaltimore Sun, United States - 2 hours agoHis son, Kyle Sutton, 28, a slam poetry performer and teacher who lives in Brooklyn, reiterated that "it's huge for the African-American community in ...
- Revered songwriter Tom Waits picks El Paso for rare concert - El Paso Times
Revered songwriter Tom Waits picks El Paso for rare concertEl Paso Times, TX - 5 hours ago... where he released eight albums in eight years that embraced blues, jazz and Beat-era poetry. His songs chronicle life in society's dark corners. ...
- Feel stirring beat of national anthem, poetry in its lyrics (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—Instead of the 4/4 beat, the national anthem should be played or sung in the 2/4, according to the Department of Education.
- Maya Angelou captivates Cleveland audience (The Plain Dealer)
In an age besotted with vacuous adolescent celebrity, 80-year-old Maya Angelou held a packed audience rapt at the Allen Theater in downtown Cleveland Monday night with nothing more than her voice.
- 'Shakespeare was a woman' - News.com.au
SHAKESPEARE was actually a Jewish woman who disguised her true identity to get her work published in Elizabethan London, an expert has contended. The woman, Amelia Bassano Lanier Bassano, was of Italian descent and lived in England as a Marrano. She ...
- Belleville-born author tackles a tricky topic (Belleville Intelligencer)
Stephen Hunt has decoded the behaviour of Earth's most baffling creature: the white guy. The Belleville-born author, 46, has just had his first book, The White Guy: A Field Guide, published by Douglas and MacIntyre. Hunt, an arts reporter for the Calgary Herald, describes it as "a [...]
- Life of famous Lebanese poet celebrated in London (Middle East Online)
Lecture marking anniversary of Gibran Khalil Gibran to be held in London in honour of his work.
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