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- Commentary: Our romance with debt -- we'll pay for it later (CNN)
Unless we value fairness, reciprocity, and honest dealing, and the concept of balances -- for debt and credit depend on them -- and unless we are able to trust our systems, we would not be able to have debt and credit -- no one would lend, because there would be no expectation of ever getting paid back.
- Poster poems: Toil and trouble - guardian.co.uk
Poster poems: Toil and troubleguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoThis is an attitude that can be traced back to the Greek poet Hesiod, whose long poem Works and Days is both an exhortation to an industrious life of ...
- Felix Dennis in interview: 'Drunks talk trash, don't they?' (Guardian Unlimited)
The last time publisher Felix Dennis gave an interview, he said he killed someone. How do you top that? With a national poetry tour - and a lot of free wine. By William Leith
- A Mixed Bag - San Francisco Gate
The time limit is part of the new packaging for WestWave, a festival that has long struggled to balance inclusiveness with quality control. In recent years, it's also fought for survival in the face of funding cuts, venue closures and the inevitable ...
- Andrew Davidson's $5-million voyage - Globe and Mail
WINNIPEG — Andrew Davidson's fantastic journey to a literary payday some estimate to be more than $2-million began in Japan almost a decade ago with a vision, an image, a fantasy, if you will. It was a vision, unbidden and fully formed, of a woman ...
- Farewell gift for writer - three years late (The New Zealand Herald)
As Bill Payne lay in his hospital bed in 2005, his body shutting down slowly, he was unable to do the one thing he loved - write. But one man's perseverance is about to make up for that.
- Cle Elum-Roslyn teacher named state's best (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Susan Johnson, a veteran language arts teacher at Cle Elum-Roslyn High School, was named Washington state's teacher of the year Wednesday.
- Tacoma gets performing arts potpourri (Tacoma News Tribune)
If you had to sum up the 2008-2009 performing arts season in Tacoma, opening later this month, the word would be “different.”
- Spanish bookstore in Port Chester encourages immigrants to read (The Journal News)
Many people who wander into Paula Farrier's Spanish bookstore have never read a book before. "I recommend something easy, and they keep coming back," Farrier said. "They say, 'Paula, I'm almost done with my book!'
- Lit happens: Salem prepares for its first-ever literary festival - Abington Mariner
Wordsmiths, bookworms and Scrabble experts are invited to get their fill of intellectual thrills at the city’s first literature festival on Friday, Sept. 12 and Saturday, Sept. 13. The event, dubbed “Literally Salem,” offers a mix of free ...
- Critics' best bets for Thursday - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Projekt Revolution Tour with Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, the Bravery, Ashes Divide, 10 Years, Armor for Sleep, Atreyu, Hawthorne Heights, Street Drum Corps. 2 p.m. Thursday at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Earth City Expressway South, Maryland ...
- GRAFTING with the Sibikwa Youth Dance Company - ArtslinkNews
ArtslinkNewsGRAFTING with the Sibikwa Youth Dance CompanyArtslinkNews, South Africa - 13 hours agoIn 2006 she did the Sibikwa internship where she focused on facilitation, Poetry, Storytelling, drama and dance. In 2007 she joined City Year as a service ...
- Your comments on my ‘animals’ column - New York Times Blogs
My Thursday column is more personal than most and is inspired partly by a visit back to the farm where I grew up in Oregon. The column looks at the vexing question of animal rights, tied partly to Proposition 2 on the California ballot, which would ...
- Bulletin Board, Aug. 19 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, Aug. 19Norwich Bulletin, CT - 35 minutes agoSinging, dancing, piano, guitar, poetry readings and skits. Proceeds benefit the Southeast Connecticut Community Center of the Blind. ...
- Golden moments of beauty, fun and community - Hot Springs Star
When I was about six years old, back in the 1950s when platform shoes were popular, I found a pair of nearly-new shiny gold, high-heeled platform shoes. And, of all places, I found them at the city dump among the rubble heaps! Finding them was better ...
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