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- China: Gain and loss in the emerging economic giant (Seattle Times)
I find a new China every time I arrive. Yet my very first experience almost 18 years ago continues to shape my perceptions. It helps me measure what was gained and what was lost during the most sweeping transformation any country has ever experienced.
- Mahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies at age of 67 - MENAFN
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) MAHMOUD DARWISH, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said ...
- Local and live - Billings Gazette
Local and liveBillings Gazette, USA - 3 hours agoBOOK SIGNING: Barjon's Books, 221 N. 29th St. 11 am-2 pm Billings author Sharon Winnett presents her poetry collection, "The Receptive Earth. ...
- Bob Crampsey, sports broadcaster and writer, dies aged 78 - Telegraph.co.uk
Bob Crampsey, sports broadcaster and writer, dies aged 78Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 11 hours agoKen MacQuarrie, controller of BBC Scotland, said: "Bob wasn't just knowledgeable about sport but a vast range of subjects, from poetry to American musicals, ...
- 'Miracle' is mired in war clichés (Detroit Free Press)
Poor Spike Lee. You just knew the moment he lashed out at Clint Eastwood for leaving black soldiers out of his two-part Iwo Jima epic that he had really put his foot in it.
- Poem Prescription (Hopkinton Crier)
For 30 years Helene Royce Tolland (also known as Mrs. R. T.) has been a mover and a shaker...not in the traditional sense ... but rather as a second grade teacher who literally has succeeded in getting students to move, shake and feel, and whatever else needed to truly learn in her classroom.
- Telethon guest has dream for future - Montgomery Advertiser
Telethon guest has dream for futureMontgomery Advertiser, AL - 11 hours agoIn a chair next to her was her husband, Donald, a retired Montgomery firefighter who is into landscaping and also loves to write poetry. ...
- Iraqis celebrate culture at festival (Mississauga News)
For many members of the Iraqi community taking part in the fifth annual Mesopotamian Festival, it was a lot like coming home. “We miss our family we had to leave behind,†says artist Ahmad Nasir, whose many paintings inspired by his home country were on display Saturday at the Iraqi Canadian Society of Ontario's event at St. Joseph Secondary School.
- Teen Prostitute Describes Life On The Streets (Bayinsider)
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Tajanik Thompson walks the streets of Oakland to make a living. She told KTVU that she will turn 18 next week, but her life on the streets started when she was only eleven years old.
- RSVP - Calendar - Herald News
STUDIO OPEN HOUSE AND SALE at Whitmore Boogaert’s W-B Sculpture Studio, 89 Bellevue Ave., Providence, R.I. will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 20 and 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 401-297-9389 or visit www.wb ...
- Poems spoke to Palestinians - Chicago Tribune
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip  Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more than 20 ...
- Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' opens Sept. 4 - Chicago Daily Herald
Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' opens Sept. 4Chicago Daily Herald, IL - 29 minutes agoThe Northwest Cultural Council seeks artists to submit works for its 2008 juried international visual art and poetry exhibition with the theme "Life's ...
- Newmarket news briefs - Portsmouth Herald News
Newmarket news briefsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 56 minutes agoThe second Thursday of every month from 7 to 9 pm is "An Evening of Spoken Word" at Crackskull's Books & Cafe on Main Street. The poetry open mike night is ...
- Share and enjoy poetry at Somerset Public Library - Fall River Herald News
Share and enjoy poetry at Somerset Public LibraryFall River Herald News, USA - 6 hours agoBy Marc Munroe Dion The sweet, complex words of poetry will fill the air on Wednesdays at the public library, starting Sept. 3 and continuing for the next ...
- 'He was a smart, rather vain man' - BBC News
She met Radovan Karadzic, whom she calls one of the conflict's "great architects", several times - and witnessed the often violent results of his policies. "He was a clever man. He'd come to Sarajevo when he was a teenager, from Montenegro, which for ...
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