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- 'Dangers of ignoring India's poor' (rediff.com)
Author Arvind Adiga discusses his new book and describes how he got the idea for it
- Happiness: Enough Already - Newsweek
Recommended (6) Is Happiness Overrated? Counting Your Blessings ‘He Should Never Have Gone to Iraq’ My Shrink Says ... Blog! Danielle Steel: A Secret Mission On the Streets Clift: Some Republicans Worry About Party’s Chances The drawbacks of ...
- Brave hearts (Guardian Unlimited)
With the publication of his first full volume of poems since 1988's Birthmarks, Mick Imlah has produced a book that fulfils, and even exceeds, the promise of that already mature and substantial debut.
- The poetry of train and track - Financial Times
Art in the Age of Steam Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool “Away with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle,” runs Dickens’ enthralled/horrified description of a journey along “the track of the remorseless monster, Death!” in Dombey and Son in 1846 ...
- Listen online: The Point of Rescue - Sophie Hannah - yorkshirepost
SOPHIE Hannah proudly follows in the footsteps of Britain's greatest female crime writers. But while she happily extols the virtues of Agatha Christie, you'd be making a mistake if you assumed her characters were twin-setted old ladies who serve up ...
- Rhyme is reason for her smile: Young poet wins contest - Lincoln Journal
Rhyme is reason for her smile: Young poet wins contestLincoln Journal, MA - 29 minutes ago“I was really excited,” Pingeon said of winning the contest. Her mother, Elizabeth Graver, said she discovered the Michigan poetry contest and thought it ...
- Avoiding moral hazard - New York Times Blogs
Media ChannelAvoiding moral hazardNew York Times Blogs, NY - 37 minutes agoI love The New Yorker — for the wonderful writing, the reporting, the poetry — oh, who am I kidding? Like everyone, I start with the cartoons. ...Cartoon Editor Disillusioned With US Press Media Channelall 2 news articles
- VMI receives grant to enhance Arabic program (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Selected cadets at Virginia Military Institute will benefit from a more robust Arabic language program, and the college will become a model for how other schools can teach the language, thanks to a grant award announced last week.
- Subtle and improbable - The National
Subtle and improbableThe National, United Arab Emirates - 4 hours agoShiraz is the city of poetry. Born in Shiraz in the 14th century, the poet known as Hafez is the Shakespeare of Iran, his work quoted and consulted in ...
- Juan Luis Guerra, now in a book - Dominican Today
Juan Luis Guerra, now in a bookDominican Today, Dominican Republic - 2 hours agoThe book "Juan Luis Guerra and 4-40: Merengue and Bachata to the rhythm of poetry and commitment" was introduced in a ceremony on Wednesday that brought ...
- Controversial abortion doctor faced a lifetime of persecution - Globe and Mail
Henry Morgentaler, the Holocaust survivor and medical doctor who won a Supreme Court decision making abortion legally available in Canada in 1988, has attracted admiration from pro-choice groups and condemnation from anti-abortion activists. That ...
- A Poetry Slam dunk: From the halls of Pittsburgh Sterrett (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Hey, here's an idea. Take a bunch of eighth-graders desperately consumed with what's cool, what's not, what their friends think of what they wear, what they do and what they say -- and have them deliver their hopes, dreams, fears into words on a page called a poem.
- Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100000 poetry prize - The Canadian Press
Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100000 poetry prizeThe Canadian Press, NEW YORK - Apr 29, 2008"Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional poet, though he is not devoted to any one god or way of being so much as to Being itself," Christian ...
- Flying High - State Gazette
And I was only 15 minutes late when I met my husband in Jackson and we left for a four-day trip to the Gulf Coast. That evening, we had our feet in the sand before we went to bed. Now that both of our children are gainfully employed, they were unable ...
- Local Poets Join McAuliffe Middle School’s Poetry Month Celebration - FortBendNow
Local Poets Join McAuliffe Middle School’s Poetry Month CelebrationFortBendNow, TX - 1 hour agoIn celebration of Poetry Month, McAuliffe Middle School welcomed local poets Donna Garrett and Se7en (pronounced seven) to the campus to recite some of ...
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