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- Poet advised young Obama - The Washington Times
In this undated photo provide by photographer Ed Greevy, African American poet and journalist Frank Marshall Davis speaks in Hawaii. Davis was a friend of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama white maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, and ...
- Pages 1 2 3 4 5 - Salon
1) "Swing da Cor," one of Daniela Mercury's signature songs (about the breakup of a love affair). Performed at a landmark 1992 concert at Rio de Janeiro's gargantuan Apoteose stadium (in the Sambadrome, the "temple of samba"). Note the staggering ...
- The funny side of life (Mail and Guardian)
There's a note for the postman pinned to the front door of Marina Lewycka's functional, foursquare house in the rowdy university quarter of Sheffield in northern England. "If no answer," it says, "please put packages behind the wheelie bin. Don't worry -- they're only foreign books."
- Palestinian poet dies in Texas - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. A hospital spokeswoman in Houston said the 67-year-old poet had died after ...
- New on the Net: Fourth of July edition - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Fourth of July weekend seems like a good time to stay close, save gas and take an online visit to the National Archives, maybe for an exploration of the Declaration of Independence. You can find a scanned copy of the original, the text ...
- Right-Wing Rewards - Slate
An essay by a recently retired Yale professor warns that an elite education "teaches you to think that measure of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense." The gilded universities also encourage ...
- Wishes for Madiba pour in as city gets ready to party (Cape Argus)
Madiba mania is taking hold in the country in the countdown to Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday on Friday.
- Book sale Thursday - Saturday (The Oneida Daily Dispatch)
ONEIDA - Area residents will have thousands of books to choose from this weekend at the 36th annual Friends of the Oneida Public Library book sale at Willard Prior Elementary School.
- In the footsteps of a trailblazer: First woman to scale Pikes Peak (Colorado Springs Gazette)
When Julia Archibald Holmes stepped onto the summit of Pikes Peak 150 years ago, she not only became the first woman to scale the 14,115-foot mountain in recorded history, she also became the first person to do it with panache.
- Grand Junction briefly news ... June 27, 2008 edition - Grand Junction Free Press
Grand Junction briefly news ... June 27, 2008 editionGrand Junction Free Press, Colorado - 15 hours agoMC Libraries presents Gwendolyn Brooks at poetry night July 9, 6pm, 550 Grand Ave. Info: 683-2437. St. Mary’s Blood Center offers free cholesterol screening ...
- Friday Procrastination: Link Love - OUPblog
Friday Procrastination: Link LoveOUPblog, New York - 19 minutes agoJoanna Lumley, one of the stars of Absolutely Fabulous and The Avengers, has made some controversial remarks about modern poetry. ...
- The eye of the storm - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldThe eye of the stormSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 15 minutes agoPoetry first had her heart. Smith's parents were not intellectuals, let alone bohemians - her father worked in a factory - and with four sickly children, ...
- News The Longest Walk (update) (Haleakala Times)
They arrived! http://www.longestwalk.org/ AND... AIM FOR FREEDOM! A 40-Year Art Photography Retrospective of the American Indian Movement OPENING RECEPTION – Honoring the Women in the Movement with special guest AIM co-founder Patricia Bellanger.
- • McDonagh led cheers for village - The Saginaw News - MLive.com
• McDonagh led cheers for villageThe Saginaw News - MLive.com, MI - 2 hours agoFacing cancer did not hinder her creative spirit when she published her second novel, ''Sequel 2 One Day, Fransean,'' in 2007, with her final book of poetry ...
- Move Aside, Batman - Egypt Today
On e might say cartoons and Islam have a rather testy relationship. In early 2006, the Muslim world erupted in protest when Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten printed cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in less-than-flattering caricatures ...
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