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- Proud to be an American - OpEdNews.com
As we come to our annual national birthday, our love of country takes a variety of expressions. For many, July 4th is simply an excuse for a party: hot dogs, apple pies, red, white and blue tablecloths and beer specials at the local Wal-Mart. For ...
- Carli Bruni: First lady of schmaltz - The Independent
Carla Bruni is a self-styled femme fatale. So it's a pity that on her new album, the French President's wife comes across as simpering and weedy, says Andy Gill Sometimes, a confluence of celebrity circumstance reaches such a critical mass of PR ...
- Getting a Little Bit Crazy in Iraq Watch Generation Kill , read the ... - Slate
Prized Fray regular wmccomninel watched Generation Kill , read the review in "Culturebox", and started a great thread which led to his laying this thought on the line: My own life was negatively affected by serving in both wars in Iraq, that much is ...
- Obama, JFK parallels - real or media hype? - San Francisco Chronicle
Obama, JFK parallels - real or media hype?San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 28 minutes ago"In sprinkling their remarks with allusions to history and poetry, neither talked down to the American people." Then, there are the connections on the more ...
- After Dark: ‘Shout It Out’ strongest in musical numbers - Burlington Free Press
Friday night’s opening of “Shout It Out,” at Burlington’s Waterfront Theater, is probably the first premiere where appreciation was offered to the attorney general of Vermont and the janitors at Mount Mansfield Union High School. It was that ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died after heart surgery - Arab Monitor
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died after heart surgeryArab Monitor, Italy - Aug 9, 2008Mahmoud Darwish, born 1942 in the Galilee, published some 25 books of poetry and prose deeply inspired by his life as Palestinian exilé. ...
- Friday Books: poetry slams, Civil Rights, energy independence and ... - Facing South
Friday Books: poetry slams, Civil Rights, energy independence and ...Facing South, NC - 5 hours agoAbbott captures the colorful history of Southern performance poetry in Let them Eat Moonpie, a book that is part history and part Southern study. ...
- Alexie Gilmore To Have an Affair with Robin Williams - Cinematical
Alexie Gilmore To Have an Affair with Robin WilliamsCinematical, CA - Jul 16, 2008The best part: While the title sounds like super-sappy fare (besides the Goldthwaite participation), it's actually the story of a high school poetry teacher ...
- Vetoes leave local entities scrambling for funding - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
Gov. Bobby Jindal's attempt to rein in "out-of-control" government spending has left several nonprofit organizations in Central Louisiana alternately scratching their heads and shaking their fists. Local cultural and tourism entities -- including the ...
- In a Salinas frame of mind - The Salinas Californian
In a Salinas frame of mindThe Salinas Californian, CA - 4 hours ago... the largest community event held in Salinas, and it includes such activities as parades, barbeques, cowboy poetry, fireworks, concerts and a carnival. ...
- Poetic death of language barriers - Scotland on Sunday Online
I'VE enjoyed many memorable moments at the Edinburgh Book Festival, but one in particular sticks in mind. One d ay my attention was drawn to a lean, hawk-nosed figure, talking animatedly. A wasp flew into his mouth mid-sentence. Not missing a beat ...
- Movie review: A victory for the 'Dark Knight' - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Movie review: A victory for the 'Dark Knight'Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 27 minutes agoThere's a hint of existential poetry in Dent's line, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. ...
- The Franklin Cover Up - Commercial - Punknews.org
Punknews.orgThe Franklin Cover Up - CommercialPunknews.org - 3 hours ago... I hope you feel it inside of me / Cut cut / I hope to God I catch the next bus,” have that jarring high-school-poetry-I’m-gonna-be-so-shocking feel. ...
- Regionally cherished novelist Bahaa Taher is all a - Egypt Today
When Bahaa Taher releases a new novel, intellectuals in Egypt and across the Arab world sit up and pay attention. It is an event, something to mark, because Taher, despite his reputation as one of the country’s most important novelists, ranking up ...
- Kilin passes away - Malta Independent Daily
Popular Maltese author Kilin passed away yesterday, just a month short of his 91st birthday. Mikiel Spiteri was born in Rabat on 20 August 1917. He was known by the pseudonym Kilin, the pet name with which his mother used to call him. He matriculated ...
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