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- I believe in UFOs. Am I crazy? (Salon.com)
My daughter saw one and I looked into it, and I found there's something to it!
- A philosophy of food that features fun - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
A philosophy of food that features funBarre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 9 hours agoMusic and poetry related to the theme are frequent additions to the program, which gives "people grace and permission to be creative with food," she ...
- Should Chess Be an Olympic Sport? - Time
Chess players compete during the semifinals of the World Blitz Chess Championship in the Israeli city of Rishon Letzion. Curling is also on the official Olympic roster, and that really piques Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess ...
- Obama's poems show real talent level - WorldNetDaily
Obama's poems show real talent levelWorldNetDaily, OR - 20 minutes agoAs an undergraduate at Occidental College, Obama had composed what he calls some "very bad poetry," and he does not sell himself short. ...
- Corporate Crime - Baltimore Sun
Seeking to defuse growing racial tensions in the small Louisiana town of Winnfield, the local district attorney announced Monday that he will seek an indictment against a white police officer for the death of a black man who was shocked nine times ...
- Editors’ Choice - New York Times
Editors’ ChoiceNew York Times, United States - 15 minutes agoIn formally traditionalist poetry about such threats as consumerism, the Iraq war and the decay of religious faith, Kirsch broods on the end of things. ...
- Japan's Poetry Boxers Get Ready to Grumble - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Japan's Poetry Boxers Get Ready to GrumbleChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 15 hours agoBy DAVID MCNEILL In a crowded Yokohama hall, boxers file into a ring watched by cheering students and a panel of university professors. ...
- Margaret Cho to Host Equalipalooza -- a Fundraiser to Help Defeat Proposition 8 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Winning Productions announces Equalipalooza -- a night of entertainment for equality. San Francisco's Margaret Cho, internationally recognized comedienne and civil rights activist, will help raise funds to defeat Proposition 8 by hosting Equalipalooza on October 15, 2008. Proposition 8, on the November ballot, aims to amend California's Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to ...
- Football, an independent India were his passions - Hindustan Times
Harkishan Singh Bassi changed his surname to ‘Surjeet’ while trying his hand writing poetry in his youth. Surjeet lived the simple life. He was his own secretary, attending phone calls and keeping a mental note of the visitors he expected over ...
- Duncan Glen: Poet, publisher, editor, designer, and excavator of Scottish literature (Independent)
Duncan Glen had a distinguished academic career in creative design, retiring in 1986 as Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication from Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham. But he was also a uniquely important poet, a pioneering critic and a crucial publisher and editor committed to the enablement of others, with an open, inquisitive eye for poetry from around the world.
- Power of the poets - East Bay
NEWPORT – At one o’clock on a rainy Saturday afternoon, three poets showed up to read their stuff in an Asian-themed meeting room at the Newport Public Library. They were auditioning for the chance to take part in “Power to the Poets,” a new ...
- American bands provide antidote to “Britain’s Indie Malaise” - Seattle Weekly
American bands provide antidote to “Britain’s Indie Malaise”Seattle Weekly, WA - 2 hours agoSlipping on his houndstooth jacket and pouring himself a snifter of port, Finn waxes philosophic about the banality of poetry readings and the art and craft ...
- Families experience life at W&M - College of William and Mary
When President W. Taylor Reveley III opened his home up to curious families on Oct. 3, he did more than show them his front parlor—he welcomed them into the William and Mary community. "Are you sure we can go inside?" one mother asked her son, her ...
- Exhibition to celebrate National Nutrition Week inaugurated (Calcutta News)
A two-day long exhibition on nutrition awareness for women and children was inaugurated at the India Gate lawns Friday. It is organized by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Food and Nutrition Board.
- Vatican scholar: prayer proves Knights Templar not heretical (Times Online)
The Vatican has for the first time published the prayer the Knights Templar composed when "unjustly imprisoned", in which they appealed to the Virgin Mary to persuade "our enemies" to abandon "calumnies and lies" and revert to "truth and charity".
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