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- Civic Center Blues: Images bridge cultures (Rocky Mountain News)
Over his shoulder, the City and County Building is aglow in morning sunlight, but the smiling man with the fringe of beard and the Dixie Chicks T-shirt doesn't notice and just hangs near the teenagegirl with pink lipstick, gel'd hair and a mouth full of braces.
- Education Ministry to ban 'Bible Lite' study booklet (Haaretz Daily)
The Education Ministry is to ban Bible aid booklets that help elementary and junior high school students by "translating" the text into simple Hebrew. Private publishers defend the booklets by arguing that biblical Hebrew is a foreign tongue to young Israelis.
- Green Mountain state - Scarlet Scuttlebutt
Green Mountain stateScarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ - 23 hours agoBut I am trying to heed Rainer Maria Rilke: "If your daily life seems poor, don't blame it, blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to ...
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? - WorldNetDaily
For years, I had a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging on my living room wall. I had painted it while in high school in New York at a salon overseen by Helen Farr Sloan, the widow of famed American painter John Sloan and herself a painter of no small ...
- Catholic Daughters announce state contest winners - Journal-Advocate
Catholic Daughters announce state contest winnersJournal-Advocate, CO - 56 minutes ago1-3 in Colorado Springs, the following local winners were announced: • and James Skerjanec, fourth place; for his poetry entry, “Jesus the Light of My World ...
- Athletes 'fight' without destruction - Grand Forks Herald
Athletes 'fight' without destructionGrand Forks Herald, ND - 1 hour agoYang Yilin of China won the bronze, and she, too, looked like poetry in motion. I really enjoy watching all of these countries perform because it reminds me ...
- U.N. troops offer lessons in peace in Lebanon (Los Angeles Times)
Yoga, French poetry, pizza making -- the international forces stationed there give war-weary residents a respite from their cares. The yoga instructor chuckles, and the three dozen or so women follow along, giggling nervously before bursting through some invisible layer of restraint or sorrow and laughing with abandon. Grins widen into smiles, tentative squeals bloom into full-bore howls.
- Preparations for fair moving along - Register Pajaronian
Preparations for fair moving alongRegister Pajaronian, CA - 1 hour ago14 at 5 pm In this last-car-standing contest, junker cars will ram and collide into each other until only one is left running. ...
- 'I am so glad you told us the truth' - Globe and Mail
After L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Butler, stated in an essay in Focus last Saturday that the author of Anne of Green Gables had committed suicide, readers responded quickly. Mongomery died in 1942, but the messages below - and ...
- Writers from Austria and Cameroon read Sept. 14 in Prairie Lights - Media Newswire (press release)
Writers from Austria and Cameroon read Sept. 14 in Prairie LightsMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 8 minutes ago... poetry and playwriting -- Tarek Eltayeb from Austria and John Nkengasong from Cameroon -- will present a free reading at 5 pm Sunday, Sept. ...
- Wilkes sets the ultimate scene at JVC jazz fest - Chicago Sun-Times
There are few musicians who qualify as “on the scene” more than Corey Wilkes — wherever the young trumpeter is, you can be sure there’s a party close by. Though his keenness to reach a wide audience is transparent — through high-energy ...
- This Evening: Actual Air - Philebrity.com
Philebrity.comThis Evening: Actual AirPhilebrity.com, PA - 8 hours agoAmerica’s alternate poet laureate (ie the author of what is probably the only contemporary poetry book you’ve purchased in the last decade, ...
- Eminem — Curtain Call - Egypt Today
With promises of retirement in the air, the hype surrounding his first ‘hits’ collection has seen Eminem regain the charts with ample justification and minimal effort. All the biggies you would expect are included here, from the goofy “My Name ...
- Obama’s challenge - The National
Obama’s challengeThe National, United Arab Emirates - 18 minutes agoMr Obama’s poetry must be matched by some stark prose – an explanation of the hard choices he will make to move his nation forward. ...
- Poetry Center design an exacting, contradictory task for architects - Arizona Daily Star
The new home of the UA Poetry Center is named for Helen S. Schaefer, who came to Tucson with her husband John in 1960, the year the center was dedicated. Schaefer has long served the center on its board and, most recently, as head of the development ...
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