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- A Public-Goods Plague - New York Times Blogs
The public-goods and free-rider problems that plague many organizations are also common at universities. At the University of Texas, the co-op bookstore offers each major college $50,000 if its professors meet the co-op’s deadline for book orders ...
- Fires rip through historic Big Sur - Santa Cruz Sentinel
A small cabin that has survived the flames is surrounded by smoke as underbrush on surrounding hillsides smolders during the Basin Complex Fire in Big Sur. BIG SUR - Like snowflakes, ash drifts across the elegant patio of the Ventana Inn & Spa. Smoke ...
- Heading South - Egypt Today
Om ar Abdel Dhaher looks like a character from his own paintings. Talking with a slight Upper Egyptian accent, the 41-year-old artist is right at home among the Nubians and Saeedis residing in his canvases. He feels so at home that he refers to the ...
- At CORA's Arthouse Forum, artists find their voice - Nigeria Guardian
C ONTRARY to earlier held opinions that most fora on the art achieve little, but mere talk, a recent event suggests that more can be achieved if such gatherings are properly articulated. On Friday, May 30, 2008, a typical example of how to make such ...
- 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 ...
- The Burial at Thebes - Variety
VarietyThe Burial at ThebesVariety, CA - 2 hours agoThe phrasing allows the ideas of the classic text to ring familiar and true to new auds without losing its poetry, which is well represented by the Chorus. ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' - International Herald Tribune
Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Chopper Read's bodyguard accused of death threat - News.com.au
MARK "Chopper" Read's bodyguard threatened to chop a man's head off with a meat cleaver over a $10 debt, a court has been told. Melbourne man Ken Pennant handed himself into police after they left a calling card for him at his local pub. Mr Pennant ...
- Kidnap suspect refuses to reveal past (BG News)
BOSTON (AP) - The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and is accused of kidnapping his young daughter says he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with the girl while evading authorities, but he still isn't talking about his life before 1993. Police say Rockefeller is really a German immigrant named Christian Gerhartsreiter.
- Shabazz grads celebrate marching to their own drummer - The Capital Times
Shabazz grads celebrate marching to their own drummerThe Capital Times, WI - 39 minutes agoThroughout their term, students have delved into the topics of anatomy, beat poetry, indigenous people and a range of other unorthodox course offerings. ...
- Updated 8/20: Western Springs library to host author Kuehnert (The Doings Western Springs)
Author Stephanie Keuhnert will read from and sign copies of her coming-of-age punk story from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs.
- Haven Kimmel Pours Some Iodine on the Wounded (The Sun Post)
And as if those weren’t already more than many writers write in a lifetime, she’s now unleashed Iodine (Free Press $24), a novel that reads like the result of all of the above — through the eyes of a stalker.
- 3 TO TRY - Columbus Dispatch
D ust off your lawn chairs and sense of humor. The 25th annual Doo Dah Parade will march through the Short North, Victorian Village and Italian Village Friday . This year's "Less-Than-Grand Marshal" is former Columbus Mayor Dana G. "Buck" Rinehart ...
- The Greene & Greene-ing of America - Arroyo Monthly
Arroyo MonthlyThe Greene & Greene-ing of AmericaArroyo Monthly, CA - 4 hours ago... (Chronicle Books; 1998), said in a recent phone interview. “The first few years of the practice he was drawing, doing watercolors, writing poetry. ...
- Fifth-grader wins bicycle essay contest (Daily Herald)
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White awarded Grant Miller, a fifth-grader from Windsor School in Arlington Heights, the third place award in the Bicycle Essay Contest held in honor of National Bicycle Safety Monty in May.
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