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- Former CBOT chairman - Chicago Tribune
Grain trader Bernard P. Carey was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade for more than 60 years, including serving as chairman from 1963 to 1965. "He loved the market, he loved the 'fight,' " according to his son Paul, who said his father traded for ...
- Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills (AP via Yahoo! News)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Poets, Poets All Around - Hartford Courant
Poetry and music share several essential qualities, rhythm and emotion being foremost among them. As National Poetry Month gets under way, a program presented Wednesday by the Litchfield County Writers Project will demonstrate what these two arts ...
- Happy Bloomsday! - Sunday Paper
Happy Bloomsday!Sunday Paper, GA - 1 hour ago... it might help to remember the poetry of William Butler Yeats and WH Auden, or the prose of Jonathan Swift, or of course the stories of that fabulously ...How 'Leopold Bloom' Shaped One Author's Odyssey NPRall 7 news articles
- Intimacy of festival appeals to all - Moose Jaw Times-Herald
Intimacy of festival appeals to allMoose Jaw Times-Herald, Canada - 39 minutes agoWe try to make sure we have a balance of poetry, fiction, non-fiction . . . we really just focus on all aspects of the word.” Howes also has authors calling ...
- MARIAH 'OVER THE MOON' WITH MARRIAGE: Andre Leon Talley says singer is ... - EURweb
*The paparazzi hasn't seen or heard from Mariah Carey since her marriage to Nick Cannon, but those closest to her continue to come forward with first-hand observations about how she's been doing since the nuptials. She is very happy. I've spoken with ...
- Chautauqua features heroes of the natural world - Asheville Citizen-Times
Chautauqua features heroes of the natural worldAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoHer 1951 bestseller, “The Sea Around Us,” thrilled readers with the poetry of science. Eleven years later in her shattering classic “Silent Spring,” she ...
- Miami melodies - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Miami melodiesThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 1 hour ago"My parents were skilled in the art of décima," she says, referring to a tradition of improvisational singing based on a medieval form of Spanish poetry. ...
- Palestinian anti-narratives in the films of Elia Suleiman - Arab Media & Society
Arab Media & SocietyPalestinian anti-narratives in the films of Elia SuleimanArab Media & Society, Egypt - 12 hours agoThe Nazareth sections are based on a series of vignettes of daily life, giving a sense of the ghetto-like existence of the Palestinians living in Nazareth. ...
- Making a statement, layer by layer - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Making a statement, layer by layerThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 22 minutes agoShe became a good observer of people, began to write poetry and developed her own sense of style. "I started designing pieces that my mom would hand sew for ...
- The Writer's Craft featuring Vincent Quatroche - phillyBurbs.com
The Writer's Craft featuring Vincent QuatrochephillyBurbs.com, PA - 3 hours agoHe has published works of prose and poetry most recently “CyberStein." His website is http://www.rubbereden.com/. He will be featured during the Mad Poets ...
- Review: Philharmonia Orchestra at Symphony Hall - Birmingham Post
Review: Philharmonia Orchestra at Symphony HallBirmingham Post, UK - 6 hours agoOf poetry, delicacy and tonal shading there was not a trace. The adagio had moments of beauty and tenderness but was often becalmed by the lethargic tempo. ...
- Meet Pawtucket's finest - Pawtucket Times
PAWTUCKET — While a minimum of 40 hours of volunteer work was required to qualify, each of the six teens who were inducted into the Pawtucket Substance Abuse Prevention Task Force’s “2008 Teen Hall of Fame” logged hours that numbered in the ...
- High sheds new light on 'Freedom' - AccessAtlanta
For "After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy," a new exhibit at the High Museum of Art, seven artists were asked to respond to the civil rights era depicted in the photographs that make up its companion show, "Road to Freedom ...
- Nigeria: 'Mediocres Are Killing Country's Publishing Industry' (AllAfrica.com)
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