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- Hillary's God - Front Page
Contrary to plans, Hillary Clinton will not be coronated this week as her party’s presidential nominee. But she will almost certainly remain an active star in America’s political constellation for many more years. Even if she never again seeks ...
- Palestinians plan big funeral for poet Darwish (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday -- an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
- Stumbling across poetry in St. Paul (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Walking my dog through my St. Paul neighborhood on a rainy Sunday, I looked down and saw a poem. Right there in the sidewalk, at the corner of Grotto and Ivy.
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Pervez Musharraf dominated Pakistan after taking power in a high-altitude coup nearly nine years ago and led a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror _ a step that earned him plaudits in the West but hatred at home.
- Troupe makes tragedy shine - Gainesville Sun
Troupe makes tragedy shineGainesville Sun, FL - 6 hours ago"It's not about just sort of transmitting lofty poetry down from the clouds and being impressed by it." "Hamlet" provided a "feast of language" for actors, ...
- third annual young writers contest - Cape Gazette
third annual young writers contestCape Gazette, DE - 35 minutes agoWinners for each age group (10-13 and 14-18) in each of three categories: fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, will have their work published in the ...
- Miracle Worker from Baghdad - New Era
Miracle Worker from BaghdadNew Era, Namibia - 6 minutes agoNada Yousif’s poetry reading sets the mood for Saad Eskander’s lecture. “The story I’m about to tell is a sad story, and it is always difficult to tell a ...
- Nevada County Fair winners (The Union)
Click here for an excel document of all the Nevada County winners (.xls).
- Exploring Turkishness - Egypt Today
A Turkish author who writes in his native language, Orhan Pamuk is the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been compared to Borges, Nabokov and DeLillo. His best-known (best-selling) novel is reminiscent of The Name of the Rose ...
- Slam Poet Saul Williams Goes to College - ABC News
ABC NewsSlam Poet Saul Williams Goes to CollegeABC News - 22 minutes agoThe things that come easiest to me are music and poetry and they tend to come in cycles. Right now I have actually been writing a lot of poetry, ...
- Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens dies - WIS
Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens diesWIS, SC - 3 hours agoThe Virginia native's first poetry book was published in 1993. Nickens may be best known for her book "Freedom's Child," which told the story of her ...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary - Philadelphia Inquirer
A Van Cliburn anniversaryPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 19 minutes agoThere's no "Banner" or poetry; in Russia, he was more a musician than an objectified folk hero and, interestingly, seems more in his element. ...
- Why do people pay, then ignore the show? - Times and Transcript
Why do people pay, then ignore the show?Times and Transcript, Canada - 20 hours agoI don't have much use for poetry, though -- with apologies to all the poets out there -- so the fact that I love a movie based on the appreciation of poetry ...
- Eli Bornowsky, Tomoyo Ihaya's work infused by travel, math, mysticism - Georgia Straight
Eli Bornowsky, Tomoyo Ihaya's work infused by travel, math, mysticismGeorgia Straight, Canada - 11 hours ago“And if aesthetics is not the appropriate word, then poetry.” While his works are subtly suggestive of op art and hardedge paintings of the 1960s, ...
- Engrossing 'Dark Knight' redefines genre (The Aspen Times)
"Batman" isn't a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about.
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