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- Breaking News: Maria Shriver endorses Barack Obama - Los Angeles Times Blogs
In a dramatic moment at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, California First Lady Maria Shriver just strode out onto a stage that had already seen its share of celebrities -- Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder among them -- and announced that she was joining the ...
- OnStage: From suffering, survival (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Fresh Ink offers a series of stories celebrating the resiliency of the spirit. Sam Roberson chronicles his journey through childhood leukemia.
- WHO is: Raymond McDaniel - Poet and University of Michigan instructor - Ann Arbor News Blog
Claim to fame: Raymond McDaniel recently published his second book of poetry, " Saltwater Empire " about the Deep South, which is where he grew up. The book also includes poems dealing with Hurricane Katrina. Age: 38. Where do you live? Ann Arbor ...
- A tribute poem for Robert Dunlop - Belfast Telegraph
I was so saddened to hear of Robert Dunlop's sudden and sad death. At such moments I write poetry. This is a poem I wrote for Robert Dunlop. Legend followed legend, And this he did, in Joey's wake. Living forever in his memory, Providing he had, what ...
- Jenny quips for an old age fund - Essex Chronicle
SHE has ditched her grumpy sidekicks and is striking out alone once again in a bid to secure a retirement fund. Comedienne Jenny Eclair is heading for the Palace Theatre tonight (Weds) and despite her moaning persona she couldn't be happier. "I love ...
- Leto’s luck - Star-ecentral.com
Singer/actor Jared Leto will be in town in August to host the MTV Asia Awards held at Genting Highlands. AS THE late singer Robert Palmer once sagely opined in his catchy 1980s hit song, some guys do indeed have all the luck. Looking at the seemingly ...
- Both, actually - Hampton Roads Daily Press
Education isn't an either/or proposition. Public schools have a charge to educate all students. The gifted and those with retardation. Those who love poetry and those who eat and breathe science. White and black. Poor and affluent. Given that role ...
- A flood of remembrances: Johnstown, Pa., floats new attractions to lure tourists (Miami Herald)
Row after row of unmarked graves in Johnstown's Grandview Cemetery -- more than 700 -- are stark testimony to one of the most darkly ironic moments in American history.
- From Germany, an opera engulfed by shadows of war - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - In Theodor Adorno's famous dictum, writing poetry "after Auschwitz" was a barbaric notion, but what about opera after the war? The genre was pronounced dead by modernists who wanted a clean break from the past. Pierre Boulez called for the ...
- The Week[end]: June 27-29, 2008 (Isthmus)
Wisconsin gets a jump on Independence Day this weekend, as hundreds of thousands gather for music and fireworks at Rhythm 'amp; Booms and Summerfest. The clubs in town are hopping too, with shows by Rose Polenzani and Meg Hutchinson, Bobby Bryan 'amp; the Original Downtown Players, New Monsoon, VO5, Axiom, Paul Geremia, Nabori, Couch Flambeau, The Kin, Solid Gold, Colony of Watts, Orchestra ...
- Galal Amin on teaching: “Preparing a lecture - Egypt Today
In the introduction to Madha Allamatni al Hayat (What Has Life Taught Me), economics professor and bestselling author Galal Amin quotes his favorite writer, George Orwell, who once said that an “autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals ...
- A word to the wise - Times of Smithtown
A word to the wiseTimes of Smithtown, NY - 1 hour agoIn the 1968 Broadway musical Hair, a character admonishes teenagers in an off-pitch singsong, "Kids, be free, be whatever you are, do whatever you want to ...
- Rotarians flip flapjacks for Family Day - Westmount Examiner
Rotarians flip flapjacks for Family DayWestmount Examiner, Canada - 3 hours agoAs part of her presentation she gave a brief history of jazz poetry that included a work by Langston Hughes, which she performed eloquently, accompanied by ...
- The Peony Pavilion: sexy ghost who returns as a virgin - Daily Telegraph
In the banquet of Chinese arts offered this summer, none will be more epicurean than the Kunqu Opera performances of the three- night romantic saga The Peony Pavilion. Something between a Shakespearean lovers' comedy and a weekend-long vaudeville ...
- Local education briefs: Kindergarten, pre-kindergarten ... - Mansfield News Journal
Local education briefs: Kindergarten, pre-kindergarten ...Mansfield News Journal, OH - 3 hours agoJuly 23 -- Eric Pankey, author of eight collections of poetry, and Jennifer Atkinson, author of "The Dogwood Tree," "The Drowned City" and "Drift Ice. ...
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