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- Celeb involvement raises profile of causes - Seattle Times
Singer Fergie poses with young people during a recent visit to Safe Space's Manhattan Youth High-Risk Drop-In Center. Bono speaks out against the AIDS epidemic. Lauren Conrad wears the Have a Heart necklace. All proceeds of the necklace benefit the ...
- Excerpt from 'The Various Flavors of Coffee' (USA Today)
The Various Flavors of Coffee'
- Literary journal moves to Ark. university - Maryland Daily Record
Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters & Life, a 25-year-old journal that has been available only on the Internet for the past decade, will publish an annual edition through the Conway campus. The Corpse is edited by author Andrei Codrescu. UCA ...
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish - The Age
Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet DarwishThe Age, Australia - Aug 13, 2008Darwish penned over two dozen books of poetry and prose in a career spanning nearly a half-century, writing searing verses that captured the Palestinian ...
- Academics unearth UK's oldest joke - Economic Times
LONDON: A 1,000-year-old double-meaning wry observation is what British academics consider to be their country's oldest joke. They found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads: "What ...
- Poets Out Loud Opens Fall Season with a Feminist Twist - Fordham University
Fordham UniversityPoets Out Loud Opens Fall Season with a Feminist TwistFordham University, NY - 1 hour agoOstriker is professor emerita of English at Rutgers University and is a faculty member of Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in poetry. ...
- Fictional city has parallels to Worcester - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
“It’s where all the important things in my life happened  my first adventure, my first girlfriend,†Mr. Dufresne said. “When I go back I just drive around and I’m reminded of people. The landscape of the imagination, that’s what ...
- Woman gets 8-13 years in ex-boyfriend's stabbing (The Salem News)
DANVERS and mdash; Kathie DeFelice made one last plea for mercy yesterday as she was about to learn her sentence for the stabbing death of former boyfriend William Olsen Jr., a killing she said was in self-defense after years of abuse.
- MY GUANTÃÂNAMO DIARY - New York Times
New York TimesMY GUANTÃÂNAMO DIARYNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoIt is hard to read this book without a growing sense of embarrassment and indignation. Jeffrey Rosen’s most recent book is “The Supreme Court: The ...
- Finding the man who walked away - Boston Globe
Unless you're familiar with the arcane details surrounding Andy Warhol and the characters who inhabited his world, you're not likely to be familiar with the name Danny Williams. But Williams had a mysterious, chilling, and now rediscovered life story ...
- Family-friendly calendar - Asheville Citizen-Times
Family-friendly calendarAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 13 minutes agoYOU-NIQUE EXPRESSIONS: Use photography, collage, sand-tray creations, poetry, music, and drama to express who you are. Bring in your favorite music, ...
- Literary events (Erie Times-News)
POETRY SCENE -- Fri., Aug. 29, 6:30-8 p.m. -- Erie Book Store, 137 E. 13th St. -- read your own poetry or just sit back and enjoy other local poets -- 480-5671.
- The Turbans (Pugrees) of Pakistan - All Things Pakistan
All Things PakistanThe Turbans (Pugrees) of PakistanAll Things Pakistan, Pakistan - 19 minutes agoMast Qalandar dabbles in everything - history, culture, education, poetry, armchair politics and, when sufficiently provoked, religion. ...
- A new understanding of peace (The Naperville Sun)
Visits by the eldest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the father of actress Uma Thurman will highlight ThinkGlobal Arts Foundation's second annual Celebration of Peace month in Naperville.
- Pervez Musharraf - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Information about Pervez Musharraf ... The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad.
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