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- 'Lesbian' not restricted to Greek island - Globe and Mail
ATHENS — A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of ...
- Poetry, please! - Telegraph.co.uk
Poetry, please!Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 21 minutes agoWhat is it that makes a poem memorable? Stephanie Plentl asks a selection of famous readers for their favourite verse. Funny, moving, engaging, sad and even ...
- Good Morning, Here Is Lovely Poetry [The Written Word] (Gawker)
Good morning friends! I am still in bed (don't get sexy thoughts—at the moment I look like Joe Pesci's mom if she'd just fallen down the stairs) and am exhausted from my astute late night political...
- New York Dinners With Dad - U-Wire.com
It wasn’t until after I unpacked into my dorm that I found my dad’s letter. Not until after I’d said to my mum, as we were driving up for my second year at Barnard, “I think this summer Dad talked to Penny more than to me.” Penny is the ...
- New York Fall Theater Preview - Gothamist
GothamistNew York Fall Theater PreviewGothamist, NY - 4 hours agoThe controversial drama is rich with rape, cannibalism, and Kane's incisive and penetrating poetry. On Tuesday, the company's "99 cent Sunday" tickets will ...
- The Temple of Flora, Robert Thornton's botanical publishing folly ... - Daily Telegraph
In 1797 a patriotic physician and lecturer in medical botany called Robert Thornton issued a prospectus for an ambitious book to be titled The New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus. "The object of this work," Thornton announced, "is to ...
- The minds behind Girlspeak - The Windy Citizen
The minds behind GirlspeakThe Windy Citizen, IL - 43 minutes ago"It's okay to scare people, but then educate them," said Melissa Jordan, a senior at North Side College Prep, adding that the poems were too teen-angsty and ...
- Amritsar love surfaces in New York - Tribune
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur love to read letters written to them about the development of the holy city of Amritsar. This fact came to the fore during the PM’s visit to New York during the last week of September ...
- Just what is art anyway? - The Province
When Will Sheff -- the wild-eyed, wild-throated frontman of Austin, Texas's Okkervil River -- let himself loose in the labyrinth of the art world on 2007's breakthrough The Stage Names, he found no shortage of inspiration. Music, movies, poetry ...
- Essay: Perhaps death is proud; More reason to savor life (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
At my job, people die. That's hardly our intention, but they die nonetheless. Usually it's at the end of a long struggle — we have done everything modern medicine can do and then some, but we can't save them. Some part of their body, usually their lungs or their heart or their liver, has become too frail to function. These are the "good deaths," the ones where the family is present and knows ...
- Martin Scorsese, Youssou N'Dour Join International Arts Initiative - PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a star-studded gala last night at Lincoln Center hosted by CEO Patrick Heiniger, Rolex announced the six master artists who will serve as mentors in the fourth cycle of its international philanthropic ...
- Joel Tudor Joins the Matuse Team - Surfline
The Matuse Family is proud to announce its newest member, Joel Tudor. A born and raised San Diegan and world renowned style master, Joel's roots, skills and passions are in lockstep with Matuse's perpetual mission towards ichiban. In this regard, not ...
- Voices come out of hiding - News & Observer
News & ObserverVoices come out of hidingNews & Observer, NC - 1 hour agoFor a $5 suggested donation or a nonperishable food item, you'll hear fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The program includes James Thurber's "You Could Look ...
- Huck and Mitt, Together Again - Wall Street Journal
Elizabeth Holmes reports from O’Fallon, Mo. on the presidential race. Here’s something you don’t see every day: Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney climbing off the Straight Talk Express. The former rivals of John McCain joined the Republican ...
- A mortgage maelstrom we can prevent - The National
A mortgage maelstrom we can preventThe National, United Arab Emirates - 13 hours agoAnother extravagance of the American mortgage market from which the UAE must learn emerged from so called “liar-loans” – mortgages given out without income ...
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