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- Books: "The Snowball" (The New Yorker)
This authorized biography of Warren Buffett, based on thousands of hours of interviews, appears just a week after Buffett took a decisive role in the current financial crisis, investing some five billion dollars in Goldman Sachs--a deal that conforms to his maxim “Be fearful when others are greedy and . . .
- Author’s slavery lecture - Liverpool Echo
Author’s slavery lectureLiverpool Echo, UK - 2 hours agoLemn Sissay, known for performances of his poetry with jazz fusion groups, will speak at the event at Liverpool town hall at 6pm. The remembrance day will ...
- Western-style fun: See what's new at the 57th Annual Rex Allen Days (Arizona Range News)
Do You Remember? From left, Rex Allen Sr., Joe Hines, Fritz Panchalk, Bruce Huffman, Mr. Froelich, Slim Pickens and Black Bart in front of The Toggery in 1951 or 1952, the first or second Rex Allen Days in Willcox.
- Indology professor in Lithuania - IndiaPost.com
Indology professor in LithuaniaIndiaPost.com, CA - 10 hours agoHe talks of Raj Kapoor and Madhubala, of Kabir and Surdas, of Bhaktikaal poetry and Bimal Roy films and of the city Agra as if he had lived there for ...
- Norman Spinrad's top 10 novels - guardian.co.uk
Norman Spinrad's top 10 novelsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHis Golem 100 is even more radical, combining prose,poetry, collage, musical score, illustration, but it's not as successful on a narrative level. 6. ...
- Iraquis celebrate culture at Mesopotamian 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 at the Iraqi Canadian Society of Ontario's Oct. 4 event at St. Joseph Secondary School. “When we come to this festival each year, it ...
- Poetry winners read at TCC (Tallahassee Democrat)
Two award-winning poets will read Wednesday evening at Tallahassee Community College.
- Manzini Day Saturday - The Swazi Observer
Manzini Day SaturdayThe Swazi Observer, Swaziland - 11 hours agoThese include gospel groups, dance groups, poetry and lots more. The groups to thrill the Manzini folk include Mduduzi nezinceku Zamagawugawu, Frans Dlamini ...
- Green Bible - Islam Online
Green BibleIslam Online, Qatar - 4 hours agoAmong the contributors are famed American evangelical Tom Wright and late Pope John Paul II. Nobel laureate South African archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote the ...
- Innkeeper's daughter pioneered city's tourist season (The Desert Sun)
“She started what was to become the whole vast, vogue of desert vacationing. All the great resorts — Tucson, and Phoenix and Death Valley — the fancy hotels and the Southwest dude ranches, and the thousands of trailers who have discovered the uncanny lure of the desert, it all began with Mother Coffman. The whole thing was built on one woman's spiritual love of the desert.”
- In Wolf Trap's 'Vienna Woods,' a Tour of German Song - Washington Post
At a time when there is so much focus on creative programming as a Holy Grail in classical music, it's bewildering that Steven Blier does not get more respect. Blier, the accompanist, arranger and artistic director of song recitals at Wolf Trap for ...
- Rob Walker's 'Buying In' (International Herald Tribune)
That Americans are consumed by consumerism will surprise few. But as Rob Walker points out in "Buying In," few will admit that they frequently succumb to salesmanship, and that marketing produces needs they never knew they had.
- Audubon lists Sept. programs - Worcester Telegram
Audubon lists Sept. programsWorcester Telegram, MA - 2 hours agoAll ages welcome. Suggested donation is $4 per family to cover the cost of the materials. • Nature Poetry Workshop will be held from 1 to 4 pm Sept. 13. ...
- Outspoken, widely famous South Asian poet - Chicago Tribune
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77. The cause was kidney failure, said his son Shibli Faraz. Mr. Faraz was earlier reported to have died ...
- New Director, Operation At Historic Latimer House (Queens Chronicle)
Vivian Warfield is the new director of the Lewis Latimer House in Flushing. She promises more accessibility to the facility. (photo by Michael O’Kane)
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