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- Eric Waugh (Belfast Telegraph)
Next week's vote south of the border on the EU treaty may seem a far-off matter to you. But you should watch it carefully, for in their referendum, the voters in the Republic have in their hands the only weapon left which can stop it. If they give it a 'No', it at once is called in question.
- 'Any Solution Will Have to Involve More Creative Thinking' - Der Spiegel
While Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of their state's founding, Palestinians around the world are mourning the "Nakba" -- or "catastrophe" -- that drove so many into exile. Scholar Lila Abu-Lughod has taken a close look at the way ...
- Woman's family suing Green Cove over Taser death - Florida Times-Union
The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental health crisis is suing the city of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old Emily Delafield ...
- Poetry Beneath The 'Senselessness' - NPR News
NPR.org , July 25, 2008 · There's a bracing pessimism coursing throughout Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness. Like a world-weary private investigator setting his rich client straight, the novel confronts one of the comfortable West's cherished ...
- Girls urged to get creative - Middleton Guardian
TALENTED young women are being challenged to inspire others via a new competition. Westwood and Coldhurst Women’s Association (WCWA) in Oldham is calling on all borough girls aged between 11 and 19 to exercise their creative spritis and enter ...
- Bainbridge teen heads to National Spelling Bee (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
BAINBRIDGE -- Claudia Schulze's love of reading helped lead the Bainbridge girl to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., this week.
- Forever Young: You’ve never been rocked until you’ve been rocked by senior citizens (The Source Weekly)
I defy anyone to not like this movie. Young at Heart will run your emotions through the gamut of joy, sorrow, anticipation and hilarity with affirmations of life, death and yes, even sex…you get it all. This documentary is about the “Young at Heart” senior citizens chorus whose average age is in the 80s, conducted by a 53-year-old taskmaster and musical genius named Bob Cilman. Focusing on the ...
- The Bookworm: Funnier than television (Collier Citizen)
Let’s say it’s Saturday night and you’re at home with no particular plans. Dinner is done, the night is young, and you think you might see what’s on TV. You grab the remote and flip through some channels.
- Letter: Thanks to all who made literary festival a success - The Daily News of Newburyport
Letter: Thanks to all who made literary festival a successThe Daily News of Newburyport, MA - 22 minutes agoShe and a host of poets engaged audiences, both new and seasoned poetry lovers, with verses and the continued relevance of poetry in our lives. ...
- Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib Takes Fundraising Drive To Calgary - South Asian Link
Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib Takes Fundraising Drive To CalgarySouth Asian Link, Canada - 8 hours agoThe Trust also runs an orphanage, a senior citizens home, a 200-bed free hospital, drug de-addiction centers, a home for widows and destitute women, ...
- Connect the dots, follow the arrows: Humboldt Hip Hop - Times-Standard
Connect the dots, follow the arrows: Humboldt Hip HopTimes-Standard, CA - 1 hour agoAmong other cross currents that blow through the Accident Gallery have been the recent spate of slam poetry contests run by the feminist and verbally-savvy ...
- A pure thrush word - guardian.co.uk
A pure thrush wordguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThis interest in naming, which recurs throughout Thomas's poetry, is picked up here by UA Fanthorpe in a poem of Gloucestershire placenames. ...
- With pencil in hand, poets come to the sand - Delmarva Daily Times
LEWES -- Poets William Claire, Billie Travalini and Jamie Brown are scheduled to read from their work at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 12 at the Lewes Library at Adams and Kings Highway. Claire is a nationally known poet, essayist and literary critic, who ...
- POLITICAL PROSE: Pesky public comments have Bucky bent out of shape - Beaver County Times
Beaver County TimesPOLITICAL PROSE: Pesky public comments have Bucky bent out of shapeBeaver County Times, PA - 2 hours agoAs a matter of fact, we were just going to run an entire column featuring our original pig Latin poetry, but then Center Area School Board pulled its old ...
- Dark 'Homeland' simply doesn't cut it (The Post and Courier)
There are certain artists who attract such extraordinary praise throughout their careers that I am always a little disappointed to find myself incapable of joining in the acclaim. English novelist George Meredith is one example. I am assured by better minds than my own that he is the great comic spirit of the Victorian era, but I'm sorry, I just can't read him. Nor do I find the joy in the films ...
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