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- Teachers’ union backs decision to drop poem from syllabus - The Herald
Teachers’ union backs decision to drop poem from syllabusThe Herald, UK - 3 hours agoJudith Gillespie, of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, said: "Quite often a lot of death in art is incidental to the main message that the artist is ...
- Funeral home director suing Archdiocese of Louisville for business interference (Louisville Courier-Journal)
A Nelson County funeral home director is suing the Archdiocese of Louisville and a Roman Catholic priest, whom he accuses of undercutting his business by implementing new rules on conducting funerals at his parish.
- Call of the wild: Britain's nature writers (Independent)
A couple of weeks ago, I descended on a blazing Italian afternoon into a steep wooded ravine. Gnarled old trees hid overgrown ancient ruins, while waterfalls cascaded down limestone crags into mysterious caverns. Anyone with even a nodding classroom acquaintance with Romantic poetry or painting might have smelled a highly cultivated rat. Surely, this textbook vision of the sublime landscape ...
- Tunisia Mourns Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish - Alarab online
Alarab onlineTunisia Mourns Palestinian Poet Mahmoud DarwishAlarab online, UK - 7 hours agoHis poetry has gained great sophistication over the years, and has enjoyed international fame. He has published around 30 poetry and prose collections, ...
- Silly fun with teens in ‘Emo! The Musical’ - Examiner.com
Silly fun with teens in ‘Emo! The Musical’Examiner.com - 1 hour ago... you most identified with: Were you the misunderstood artiste, the perpetually stoned slacker or perhaps the sad-sack scribe of seriously bad poetry? ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale - Miami Herald
MILWAUKEE Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin ...
- Defiant Musharraf stands down, an ally of the West but reviled by many ... - Newsday
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) _ Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president who took power in a high-altitude coup and later dragged a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror, submitted his resignation Monday after a turbulent nine years in ...
- Still a smash - Daily Progress
Maybe “1979” made you feel nostalgic for teenage boredom. Perhaps the video for “Tonight, Tonight,’’ with its silent-film homage to Georges Melies’ fanciful “A Trip to the Moon,’’ kept you switching back to MTV. Whichever songs from ...
- Dead author's estate snatches child's domain (The Register)
Nar-nar-nar-nar-nar(nia) A British couple has lost the battle to keep the narnia.mobi domain name which they claimed was only registered so that their son could have a Narnia-related email address. The address will transfer to a company representing CS Lewis's estate.…
- Craig briefs for Sept. 29 - Craig Daily Press
Craig briefs for Sept. 29Craig Daily Press, CO - 13 minutes agoTo enter, send one poem of 21 lines or less to Free Poetry Contest, 1638 Dogwood Lane, Acworth, Ga. 30102. Contestants also may enter online at ...
- Profile on Fiona Phillips: No more rise and shine for sofa star - Scotland on Sunday
Profile on Fiona Phillips: No more rise and shine for sofa starScotland on Sunday, UK - 59 minutes agoAs a child growing up in Canterbury, Phillips was precociously clever. At five she had a reading age of 11, and at six she won a national poetry competition ...
- Spare Times: For Children - New York Times
Spare Times: For ChildrenNew York Times, United States - Jul 17, 2008Free with admission: $5; free for members and under 1. MACY’S FISHING CONTEST (Friday through Sunday) Children are desperate to find RH Macy these days, ...
- Arts on Bricks got people to look down — and up - Kearney Hub
Gracie Pierzina, 6, of Kearney creates her own art Saturday during the Uptown Arts Festival. KEARNEY — Despite wet and cool weather, the Uptown Art Festival Saturday drew artists and audiences to downtown Kearney. Kearney Area Arts Council board ...
- Best-selling author of ‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ to read and discuss ... - LIU Blackbirds
LIU BlackbirdsBest-selling author of ‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ to read and discuss ...LIU Blackbirds, NY - 1 hour agoThe event is part of the annual “Starting from Paumanok” lecture, named after the poem by Walt Whitman that invokes the Native American name for Long Island ...
- Celebrity writers try out big ideas - The Australian
Celebrity writers try out big ideasThe Australian, Australia - 13 minutes agoLevi, an Italian Jew incarcerated in a concentration camp, and Akhmatova, whose life and poetry were blighted by Stalinism, are extreme examples of how ...
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