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- Popular Authors Sign On For National Book Festival - WJLA
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among the 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival on September 27th on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady Laura ...
- Library of the lost - Guardian Unlimited
The English art-noticing classes, a voluble minority, have never had much time for Percy Wyndham Lewis. But they do know one thing, they prefer to dislike him as a writer (racist, misogynist, premature Hitler enthusiast) than as a painter. Plural ...
- Bootle schools sign up as celebrities back Shine Week - icSeftonandWestLancs
Bootle schools sign up as celebrities back Shine WeekicSeftonandWestLancs, UK - 1 hour agoJoining Shine is free at www.shineweek.co.uk and every school registered receives a free creative kit to help towards their celebrations. ...
- Alone in North Korea (Times Online)
THE COMMUNISTS were watching intently. One wore a rough, green military uniform with a cut-off collar. He had a large, moon-like face and an inscrutable expression. The other, who had a flint-like look in his eye, was in a slick grey suit.
- Visitors are welcome at New York's religious retreats - USA Today
Keith Barkett meditates at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, N.Y. IF YOU GO ABODE OF THE MESSAGE: New Lebanon, N.Y., about 25 miles from Albany, www.theabode.net/ or 518-794-8090. Run by a Sufi community. ZEN MOUNTAIN MONASTERY: Mount ...
- A motorvating company party (USA Today)
Every year, a rich variety of eye-catching vehicles line the sidewalks and courtyard at the headquarters of Pixar, the Disney-owned digital animation studio. Corvettes, Mustangs, Jaguars and Lotuses. There are even a few surprises, such as an armored military truck and a General Motors hydrogen-powered SUV. Borrowing a name from GM history, the Pixar folks dub it "Motorama."
- German opera, theater director Grueber dead at 67 - Chicago Sun-Times
QUIMPER, France---- Klaus Michael Grueber, a German opera and theater director renowned for lyric elegance, has died in western France, local officials said Monday. He was 67. Grueber died Sunday on the Brittany island resort of Belle-Ile-en-Mer ...
- Laughing Communism to death - Daily Telegraph
"Jokes were Eastern Europe's jazz, the music of the oppressed," Ben Lewis observes. But did they contribute significantly to the collapse of the Communist system? Lewis thinks so, and has travelled extensively in eastern Europe to prove it ...
- England v South Africa - live! (Guardian Unlimited)
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- Pete Doherty: He Fought The Law (And The Law Overreacted) - Entertainment.uk.msn.com
As police intervene to stop Babyshambles from playing at a festival in Wiltshire, should Pete Doherty be stopped from playing live gigs? Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse like a drink together, but they’re more than just drinking buddies. They ...
- The little-known Worcester sweetheart of Emily Dickinson - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
The evidence is that Emily Dickinson was not quite the shy recluse of legend. Call it coincidence, call it serendipity, call it what you will. Within two days a few weeks ago, I read two accounts relating to Emily Dickinson. The first was a New ...
- A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day - ScienceBlogs
A new cognitive psychology article nearly every dayScienceBlogs - 2 hours agoSweet Silent Thought: Alliteration and Resonance in Poetry Comprehension Psychological Science, 19 (7), 709-716 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02146.x.Alliteration improves memory performance ScienceBlogsall 2 news articles
- Mike Myers: Man of Mystery - Entertainment Weekly Online
He begins, as he often does, with his father. He talks about the deep depression that engulfed him after his dad's death in 1991 and the spiritual quest he embarked upon to make sense of his pain. He talks about Eastern poetry, Deepak Chopra, and ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings Camelot to Obama camp - Louisville Courier-Journal
Caroline Kennedy brings Camelot to Obama campLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 46 minutes agoShe also has edited a volume of poetry and an updated version of her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage. Today she presents annual ...
- Smiles better - York Press
Smiles betterYork Press, UK - 1 hour agoBy Gerran Grimshaw BY THE BOOK: Caroline Halliday A GRANDMA with cancer from Selby district has written a booklet of uplifting poetry to give hope to fellow ...
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