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- In the Presence of Darwish - Nation
A billboard showing Mahmoud Darwish next to his burial site in Ramallah Mahmoud Darwish once said that he considered himself to be a Trojan poet recollecting and reconstructing the voices of the defeated: "The Trojans would have expressed a different ...
- Three Dunedin Writers Named As Finalists In This Year's Montana ... - Channel 9
Three Dunedin Writers Named As Finalists In This Year's Montana ...Channel 9, New Zealand - Jun 10, 2008Three Dunedin writers have been named finalists in this year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Laurence Fearnley has been nominated in the fiction section ...
- Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, dies - MLive.com
LOS ANGELES — Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68. LaFontaine's agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voiceover artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing ...
- Why should dam give way? - Tribune
T he communal madness that the VHP goons started in Orissa on Monday continues in many areas like Kandhamal district. It was unpardonable on Day 1; it is inexcusable after all these days. The blame squarely lies at the door of the Naveen Patnaik ...
- Small is beautiful (The Star-Ledger)
THE CONTENT is complex: suicide, war, love and illness. The format, however, is simple: black ink on white paper. In an era of streaming video, e-mailed images and audio downloads, this format -- the printed page -- may seem paltry.
- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road - Independent
Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the roadIndependent, UK - 17 minutes agoHis mother, Masha, was a Russian Jew from Lithuania, from whom Cohen inherited his love of song and poetry. His sister, Esther, still lives in Montreal. ...
- 'As You Like It' fails to exploit its setting - Philadelphia Inquirer
Shakespeare in Clark Park pulls off a nicely edited As You Like It in an hour and 35 minutes, but while the text is lean, the production's lumpy. As the play about two usurping pairs of brothers and many pairs of lover-wannabes moves toward a ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (Boston Globe)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist whose unyielding opposition to Soviet dictatorship made him one of the heroic figures of the 20th century, died late yesterday. The cause of death was heart failure, his son, Stepan, was quoted as saying. He was 89.
- Interview: Blessing from Thai Princess for Beijing Olympics - Xinhua News Agency
BANGKOK, July 31 (Xinhua) -- "It is my first ever Olympics opening," Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn told Xinhua, referring to her planned attendance at the opening of the Beijing Olympics next week. "It is Beijing's first ever ...
- Changing roles at Wordsworth Trust - NW Evening Mail
Changing roles at Wordsworth TrustNW Evening Mail, UK - 5 hours agoHis accomplishments at the trust – a centre for British romantic poetry – include reducing costs and increasing visitor numbers. ...
- Sarah Palin, God, guns and grit - Monsters and Critics
The subject of great debate on CNN and other news channels was the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the GOP vice president choice for Senator John McCain. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (C) surrounded by her family members. From L-R back row ...
- Hookah cafe gets approvals - The Republican - MassLive.com
Hookah cafe gets approvalsThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 54 minutes agoAccording to Christian B. Rahn, who will run the business with partners Victor Quinn and Scott Radner, The Den will be the first hookah bar west of ...
- Poetic licence (The Star)
Writer Bernice Chauly’s second collection of poems is full of emotions and stories which speak to women the world over.
- Historic pub threatened with closure - This is Southampton
LANDLORDS of one of the country's oldest pubs are pleading for a financial lifeline to save it from closure. Tony and Natasha Morris say spiralling upkeep costs and a general downturn across the trade has left them on the brink of closing The Red ...
- The Dark Knight: Striving to be impressive, but essentially empty - World Socialist Web Site
World Socialist Web SiteThe Dark Knight: Striving to be impressive, but essentially emptyWorld Socialist Web Site, MI - 1 hour ago...And some on the opposite grounds—“Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood ...
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