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- Police found computer tower missing at teacher's home (Windsor Star)
The computer tower prosecutors say would have proved a sexual relationship between high school teacher Mark Baggio and two of his students was missing from his home when police searched it, Superior Court heard Tuesday.
- The Messenger of Athens, By Anne Zouroudi (Independent)
When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island the local police seem in far too much of a hurry to get the body buried and catalogued as a case of accidental death. Anne Zourodi's hero, Hermes Diaktoros, generally referred to as "the fat man", arrives on the island to investigate the crime apparently uninvited, and uncovers a sordid mess of lies and secrets: the ...
- Rumors abound after quake - Boston Globe
BEIJING - Almost as soon as the initial aftershocks stopped reverberating last week, the rumors began. Some say that frogs, insects, and other animals fled shortly before the earth shook. Others insist that water mysteriously drained from ponds, or ...
- Music-Infused 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, with Augesen and Hayden ... - Playbill.com
Playbill.comMusic-Infused 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, with Augesen and Hayden ...Playbill.com, NY - 8 hours agoThe Parma, Italy-set story "explores a deadly erotic obsession between siblings Giovanni and Annabella," according to ACT "With clear and gripping poetry, ...
- The histories, by Herodotus - Globe and Mail
Globe and MailThe histories, by HerodotusGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoHistory, like poetry, began with war. Around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing of the wrath of Achilles, composed The Iliad, a Greek by the ...
- Survey Says: Time for a Change - Washington Post
Survey Says: Time for a ChangeWashington Post, United States - 4 hours agoThe actor-director was here to talk up a youth slam-poetry program sponsored by his foundation on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," which tapes at the Newseum. ...
- 7000 entries for poetry contest - Khaleej Times
7000 entries for poetry contestKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - May 2, 2008The Prince of Poets contest is one of the most successful TV programmes in the Arab world, which broadcast the biggest TV poetry competition in classical ...
- Simmons, Graham combine talents in prairie book - Newton Kansan
Simmons, Graham combine talents in prairie bookNewton Kansan, KS - 1 hour agoSimmons has been writing poetry since he was a sophomore at Bethel College. He was first inspired when a teachers asked his class to go back to their rooms ...
- Beach Boys, it's not, but it's got rhythm - Globe and Mail
Beach Boys, it's not, but it's got rhythmGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThe song also asserts that the "bucke verteth," which The Norton Anthology of Poetry translates as "the buck breaks wind." Scholars love to debate the point ...
- BBC website signals greater interactivity (Guardian Unlimited)
The BBC is developing an extensive personalisation system on bbc.co.uk this year as part of a wider plan to improve interactivity. By Jemima Kiss
- Sorted for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics - The Independent
I don't know what Jarvis Cocker will conclude in his lecture at the Brighton Festival next week, but many of our songwriters would have us believe that their great songs flowed through them, as if from a divine force On a recent trip to Brazil, I ...
- 200th anniversary of the birth of Norway's National Poet (The Norway Post)
In Oslo, crowds assembled at his gravesite on the National Cemetary, and this was followed by various formal and informal arrangements throughout the capital, including concerts and poetry readings.
- Get ready to shop! Tremont Art Walk set for Friday, June 13 - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.comGet ready to shop! Tremont Art Walk set for Friday, June 13The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 54 minutes agoThis literary treasure, in a restored home (with space for poetry readings and special events upstairs), features a tremendous selection or art, literature, ...
- Fargo's single released in Mount Airy rises on charts - Mount Airy News
Mount Airy NewsFargo's single released in Mount Airy rises on chartsMount Airy News, NC - 1 hour agoIn recent years she has found a second career writing poetry, greeting cards and various novels including an autobiography. Debbie Cochran, a morning radio ...
- Brideshead Revisited Revisited - Slate
Mad Men (AMC, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) is not just about marketing, it's also a triumph of it. You can set the matter of the show's near-excellence—its patient pacing and self-possessed performances, its yards of assertive style—on the Saarinen ...
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