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- Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'dundasstreet' (Torontoist)
Toronto Police have just announced [PDF] that the Yonge-Dundas scramble lights, which stop vehicular traffic in all four directions at the intersection simultaneously to allow pedestrians to cross in whatever direction they want, are going into effect as of 11 a.m. Thursday morning.
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - San Diego Union-Tribune
HONOLULU – At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Our Daily Bleg: What Are the Film Quotes of the Century? - New York Times Blogs
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro , editor of the Yale Book of Quotations , is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own , send it along here . Thanks again to all who contributed great suggestions of TV catchphrases, U.S. and ...
- Thousands of books on sale to benefit the library - Redding Pilot
Redding PilotThousands of books on sale to benefit the libraryRedding Pilot, CT - 47 minutes agoIt’s the biggest poetry collection in five years, he said. Several years ago, the book fair moved from the elementary school, where tents had to be used in ...
- A strange career - Daily Pioneer
Its time to write a political requiem for General Pervez Mushrraf. Seven years back, who would have thought such a day would come? Saturday Special's Indo--centric view of the strange successes and astonishing failures of a man a whole generation of ...
- Of Tulips, Open Spaces and Freedom - The Daily Star
The Daily StarOf Tulips, Open Spaces and FreedomThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 35 minutes agoWe heard readings from British poet Daljit Nagra book of poems Look We Have Coming to Dover, which won the 2007 UK Forward Poetry Prize for best poetry ...
- Sufism, sodomy and Satan (Asia Times)
Sigmund Freud thought that everything was about sex, and he was half right. Rarely is love so spiritual that it does not also stir the loins, for human beings are creatures not only of soul but of body.
- On the Verge of a Hmong-American Literary Movement - New America Media
On the Verge of a Hmong-American Literary MovementNew America Media, CA - 58 minutes agoThese memories came back to me as I performed poetry and prose with other Hmong American writers at the Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner Auditorium on July 26. ...
- 'Still Alive! A Temporary Condition' by Herbert Gold - Los Angeles Times
If America had the literary culture it ought to have, every city would have a writer like Herbert Gold. They would be rooted rather than regional. Their sensibility would be cosmopolitan rather than provincial, though their focus would be voluntarily ...
- How did anthrax suspect Ivins keep security clearance? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The army microbiologist sought aid for mental health years ago.
- Putting the Arts back into the Arts - Utne Reader Online
Utne Reader OnlinePutting the Arts back into the ArtsUtne Reader Online - 7 hours agoThe skills of eye and hand and heart that were so much a part of making art in the 19th century, the after-dinner poetry recital or a musical performance or ...
- Glen Balfour-Paul - Guardian Unlimited
Glen Balfour-Paul, who has died aged 90, was a soldier, archaeologist, colonial administrator, scholar and poet. He served as British ambassador to three Arab countries, and was the author of an elegant collection of memoirs that detailed his ...
- First Monday: What's on tap for the business world in August (USA Today)
On this month's business calendar:
- The Imposter - Sunday Herald
The ImposterSunday Herald, UK - 25 minutes ago... like a votive offering, she immediately takes possession of the power ceded by his diffidence and lets him know how indifferent she is to his poetry. ...
- Batshaw Youth and Family Centers Receive Federal Support for Powwow - Newsblaze.com
PREVOST, QUEBEC - (Marketwire - June 20, 2008) - With Government of Canada support, youth in Prévost will celebrate National Aboriginal Day with a Powwow that, in part, recognizes the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The ...
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