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- All the Little Letdowns - Aversion
All the Little LetdownsAversion - 9 hours ago... purest teen misery, you can't totally blame the band. It's in its generational genome to make like personal experiences are as riveting as epic poetry. ...
- Racist Media Whore Designer Says Dumb Things All By Himself [Fools] (Gawker)
We dislike giving any unnecessary PR to [bad designer], the L.E.S. twit who duped the free NYC paper Metro into putting him on its cover for a racist publicity stunt about a (probably nonexistent)...
- Oh, what a paradise was lost (The News & Observer)
Ethan Canin's first novel in seven years channels varied influences. The title is taken from one of Elia Kazan's best, if most resolutely uncommercial, films. The story is a conflation of "The Great Gatsby" and "All the King's Men," with strong overtones of "The Magnificent Ambersons" (one of Canin's characters echoes Booth Tarkington by referring to "one of God's lesser known laws. The law of ...
- "Festival of Tears": the tragic history of lynchings (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
NEW PALTZ — They didn’t always do it in the dead of night. Sometimes, the sun was shining. Word would go out and hundreds of people would turn up from all over.
- Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded Him - Sofia News Agency
In May 1974, three months after his dramatic expulsion from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn entered on a search for a place to live in North America. The search ended in Cavendish, Vt., but the first stop was at our summer place on a lake ...
- This week's gallery roundup - Cincinnati Enquirer
This week's gallery roundupCincinnati Enquirer, OH - 6 hours agoIt's accompanied by a slate of activities that includes poetry readings, film screenings and discussions. Art Academy of Cincinnati through Sunday. ...
- Children chipper with chopper - Reading Evening Post
Lucky pupils at Langtree School sampled the pilot’s life when the RAF paid them a special visit last month. The pilots held a training course at the school as part of its Curriculum Enrichment Week, which ran from Monday, July 14, to Friday, July ...
- Heroes of our times - Ministry of Defence (press release)
Ministry of Defence (press release)Heroes of our timesMinistry of Defence (press release), Sri Lanka - Aug 8, 2008Kobbekaduwa was deeply loved by his subordinates for his inspirational leadership and humanity. The massive crowds at his funeral proved the love and ...
- Fun for everyone (Argus Observer)
Weiser — Bruce Looselip spun his tales of bad horses, good women and ranching with the bureaucracy Tuesday at the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest and Festival.
- Bardstown street art will aid abuse victims (Louisville Courier-Journal)
A series of chalk street drawings with startling illusions are on tap for "Via Colori" today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Bardstown, Ky. The free event benefits the Advocacy & Support Center in Elizabethtown.
- Greek court considers Lesbos vs lesbians case - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - A Greek court is considering a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban use of the word lesbian as a term to describe gay women, a court official said on Wednesday. Three Lesbos residents brought the case ...
- A Kennedy Goes Public - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Caroline Kennedy is beginning to show a real enthusiasm for the family business. When the daughter of John F. Kennedy was named to Sen. Barack Obama's vice-presidential search committee, many political observers saw the move as mere ...
- Cy Twombly: like nothing else in art - Daily Telegraph
Cy Twombly is the odd man out in the great generation of American artists that also includes Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Born in Lexington Virginia in 1928 and educated in the South, he came north to study art before attending Black ...
- Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100 - DesMoinesRegister.com
Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 18 minutes agoOn that machine, Eyerly, who died Monday in Des Moines at age 100, churned out 18 novels for children and two books of poetry and co-wrote a nationally ...
- Charles Van Doren - Hartford Courant
The annual summer lecture sponsored by the Litchfield County Writers Project will feature a talk called "Poems of Love, Poems of Loss' by Charles Van Doren on the life and works of Emily Dickinson. Van Doren has written more than a dozen books and ...
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