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- Ross mom whose son has Asperger's writes book of poems (Marin Independent Journal)
Like the autistic character Dustin Hoffman plays in the movie "Rain Man," Rebecca Foust's son is, in her words, "very different.
- Scots author hits back at Paxman over his attack on Burns’s poetry - The Herald
Scots author hits back at Paxman over his attack on Burns’s poetryThe Herald, UK - 13 hours agoO'Hagan, who believes Burns is the greatest poet the world has seen, was speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He was reacting to Paxman's ...
- A look at what people are reading this summer (The Weston Town Crier)
 It’s summer vacation time in the midst of a presidential campaign so thrillers, frothy romances and light novels are sharing space with weightier political and history tomes in the beach bags and on bedside tables of Sudbury, Wayland and Weston residents.
- (Don’t) Teach Mahmoud Darwish - Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Sydney Morning Herald(Don’t) Teach Mahmoud DarwishAlternative Information Center (AIC), Israel - 2 hours ago... just as his “personal” poetry is clearly political. The storm returned again over the poem Passers between the Passing Words, which was published during ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishMahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet, is dead International Herald TribunePalestinian 'poet of the resistance' Mahmoud Darwish dies Telegraph.co.ukNPR - The Nationalall 487 news articles
- Confluence, Pittsburgh's 20th Annual Science Fiction Convention - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Confluence, Pittsburgh's 20th Annual Science Fiction ConventionPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 3 hours agoPoetry readings, filk concerts, a video room and other entertaining fare. A taste-testing consuite, a boffo art show, and a book-crammed dealers room. ...
- 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 ...
- Flying SoloNova (Backstage.com)
Five-year-old fest restores the art of storytelling. For as long as humanity has had language, it has had stories. Before the written word or the printing press, storytellers used myths, legends, history, and imagination to entertain and to explain life.
- Educational’ side of MySpace, Facebook and Orkut revealed - Freshnews
Washington, June 21 (ANI): Those hooked to social networking sites like Orkut, MySpace and Facebook, do not just kill their time online, but learn a range of new things, says a new University of Minnesota study, which has detailed the educational ...
- What Maliki Didn't Say - Slate
Here's Spiegel 's transcript of Prime Minister al-Maliki's comments on when U.S. troops might withdraw from Iraq: As soon as possible, as far as we're concerned. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be ...
- Seven More Suspended - The Bulletin
PHILADELPHIA - Seven more Department of Human Services workers were suspended yesterday, after Mayor Michael Nutter lashed out at the agency for failing to do their jobs, which led to a young teenager's death. Late Friday, Assistant Health ...
- Kenya: On poetry slam in Nairobi - Global Voices Online.org
World Regions › Americas › Central Asia & Caucasus › East Asia › Eastern & Central Europe › Middle East & North Africa › Oceania › South Asia › Sub-Saharan Africa › Western Europe Topics › Agriculture › Arts & Culture ...
- Restored 'Once Upon a Time in the West' at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater - Los Angeles Times
Sergio Leone's 1968 masterwork, “Once Upon a Time in the West,” was showing the ravages of time. The negative that Paramount Pictures had been using over the years to strike prints was getting old and frayed, and the color was shifting. But ...
- Multiple sclerosis: the eloquent rage of a party girl cut down - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukMultiple sclerosis: the eloquent rage of a party girl cut downTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 30 minutes agoSo began a remarkable collection of poetry: as Collette talked, Rawlence wrote everything down on his laptop, nudged it into shape, then returned it for her ...
- Amanda Diva: The Renaissance Woman - Baller Status
Photo: DivaWorks Inc. Just when rap fans thought female rappers were destined to go to jail, Amanda Diva comes to save the day. We all have encountered this diva at some point. If we didn't catch her on VH1's "Best Week Ever" making us laugh, we ...
- 'No Child Left Behind' Still Gets Mixed Grades - Kansas CW
'No Child Left Behind' Still Gets Mixed GradesKansas CW, KS - 4 hours agoI answered, 'We don't have time for poetry any more. We have to get ready for the test' (Illinois). As might be expected, the US Department of Education's ...
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