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- 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.
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - FOX News
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some ...
- Wardrobe Malfunction Fine Thrown Out - Waveguide
A US appeal court has thrown out a $550,000 (£275,700) fine against CBS for screening Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during 2004's Super Bowl. Three judges ruled the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) watchdog "acted arbitrarily and ...
- Shall We Dance? (IE via Yahoo! India News)
With a rendition of The Three Musketeers and classical choreographies, the annual Ananya Dance Festival promises to be as entertaining as ever At the Chennai home of Kuchipudi nattuvanar Jai Kishore Mosalikanti, last-minute rehearsals are in full swing.
- Winners of William Rockhill Nelson Awards - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Winners of William Rockhill Nelson AwardsSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 11 hours agoWalter Bargen’s West of West and John Gallaher’s The Little Book of Guesses were poetry finalists, and Michael L. Johnson’s Hunger for the Wild and R. Alton ...
- High Expectations for Obama Acceptance Speech - Elections.foxnews.com
DENVER - Barack Obama will try to balance the grandeur of his nomination speech setting Thursday night by delivering what his campaign is calling a “direct conversation†with the American people, before a crowd of more than 70,000 in Denver ...
- Kerouac's On The Road scroll comes to Columbia College Chicago - Examiner.com
Examiner.comKerouac's On The Road scroll comes to Columbia College ChicagoExaminer.com - 4 hours agoColumbia has programmed events that range from poetry readings (prepare to Howl) to radio plays to film screenings and open mikes (click on the above link ...
- Local Newsmakers - August 24, 2008 (The Rock Hill Herald)
Essay contest winners named by DAR chapter
- Ryan Reading To Kick Off Literary Season - Post Chronicle
Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading. The library said the event is to take place Oct. 16 in the Mumford Room of the James ...
- American Life in Poetry: Sand cherry - Morris Sun Tribune
American Life in Poetry: Sand cherryMorris Sun Tribune, MN - 20 minutes agoBy Ted Kooser Sometimes I think that people are at their happiest when they're engaged in activities close to the work of the earliest humans: telling ...
- Munro and Ricci, Mowat and Martin lead fall harvest of Canadian books - Globe and Mail
Munro and Ricci, Mowat and Martin lead fall harvest of Canadian booksGlobe and Mail, Canada - 36 minutes agoOne of the season's most talked-about novels, due Oct. 4, is by a writer known far and wide for his poetry. Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane is described as ...
- The Oregonian (The Oregonian)
Your tears came from farther away than long distance. I heard them keening from wells and mineshafts, deep inside a darkness I know but haven't seen. We all know it's there, know it waits in the closet beyond the closet and in those canyons of ink beneath our beds. But we don't go there.
- Pat West - Guardian Unlimited
During the 1970s, my friend, Pat West, who has died of cancer aged 69, blossomed in Sistershow, as a poet, performance artist and feminist. For at least 15 years from the early 1990s she organised and hosted the poetry and words tent at the ...
- Cubola Publishes Series of Social Studies & Literature Textbooks - Channel 7 Daily News
Cubola Publishes Series of Social Studies & Literature TextbooksChannel 7 Daily News, Belize - 1 hour agoThe old movie cliché advises that “if you build it; they will come†– but applying that logic to the hit and miss world of book publishing is never a sure ...
- Miss Strafford County finalists announced - Fosters Daily Democrat
DOVER Miss New Hampshire 2008 Natalie Shaw has been in Los Angeles, filming a reality series for TLC. Nine young women hoping to follow in her footsteps begin their quest for the Miss America crown competing for the titles of Miss Strafford County ...
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