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- McGonagall proves his worth after all - Times Online
Acclaim of a sort has finally come to William Topaz McGonagall, otherwise known as the world's worst poet, after a collection of 35 of his original poems beat expectations to sell for £6,600 to a mystery buyer at auction yesterday. McGonagall, who ...
- Militia agrees to let in Iraqi troops - Post-Bulletin
Militia agrees to let in Iraqi troopsPost-Bulletin, MN - 9 hours agoAn annual poetry festival, al-Mirbed, resumed for the first time in three years, with male and female folk dancers performing in public and poets spouting ...
- After 'August: Osage County,' a departure for Tracy Letts - International Herald Tribune
After 'August: Osage County,' a departure for Tracy LettsInternational Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoHe suggests sexing up the place with music, maybe a poetry reading or two and adding "some heart-healthy alternatives" to the menu. ...
- Get Smart! Please! - MSN Entertainment
A supershamus like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe negotiates incredibly tangled plotlines as well as mean streets. Along the way, colorful rogues mislead and every devious frail makes a play for the hawkshaw. Detoured down one blind alley after another ...
- These kids know how to write - Daily World
In the Little Theater at Hoquiam High School Saturday, Kenn Nesbitt told a crowd of wiggly, giggly kids that he was inspired to write funny poems when he was cleaning his apartment as an adult. He was listening to a CD and heard Shel Silverstein read ...
- Courting Trouble - Wall Street Journal
Many people are rubbing their eyes at the fact that Britain is letting out of jail some of al Qaeda's most dangerous members. In June a British court released the notorious Islamist preacher Abu Qatada, who had spent the previous three years in jail ...
- Race is on for Day of Summer Fun at Lake Wylie - RedOrbit
Race is on for Day of Summer Fun at Lake WylieRedOrbit, TX - 10 hours agoCash prizes will be awarded to winners in poetry and fiction. Entry deadline is July 7. Winners will be announced by Aug. 1. For details and guidelines, ...
- Bookshelf Maximizing Money - Wall Street Journal
How to Get Rich By Felix Dennis (Portfolio, 291 pages, $25.95) If Machiavelli sat down at his iMac to confect "The Billionaire Prince," it might sound remarkably like Felix Dennis's "How to Get Rich" – without the poetry or the rollicking vulgarity ...
- Misunderstood Masterpieces 07.08.08: I Know Who Killed Me - 411mania.com
Misunderstood Masterpieces 07.08.08: I Know Who Killed Me411mania.com, TX - 2 hours agoAt a seedy burlesque club – even though "burlesque" could not be more antiquated or inappropriate in this context, someone has a beat poetry-inspired ...
- Bonekickers episode 3 review - Den Of Geek
Bonekickers episode 3 reviewDen Of Geek, UK - 8 hours agoBonekickers' cheesy script is also beginning to form its own unique kind of poetry. You've got to admire a show that can throw out lines such as 'Love is at ...
- Television movies for the week of May 11 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Television movies for the week of May 11Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 36 minutes agoAn American con artist wins a poetry contest staged by residents of a financially strapped Irish town. (PG-13) (1:45) SHO: Wed. ...
- Thought Criminal Wins Appeal - Londonist
LondonistThought Criminal Wins AppealLondonist, UK - 3 hours ago... sobriquet "lyrical terrorist", applied not because of a love for rap rabble-rouser MIA but due to her penchant for writing extremist "poetry". ...
- Trial set for former teacher's aide - Globe Gazette
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Trial is scheduled for June 16 for a former Iowa City West High School teacher's aide accused of having sex with a student. Thirty-eight-year-old Colleen Solberg is charged with lascivious conduct with a minor. She pleaded ...
- The Cruelest Art (Real Change News)
Dr. Darius Rejali on Torture in Democratic Societies. Waterboarding. Hypothermia. Stress positions. Prolonged isolation. Sensory deprivation.
- Angelou tells grads to be courageous above all else - Ithaca Journal
Angelou tells grads to be courageous above all elseIthaca Journal, NY - 5 hours agoShe delivered the first lines of her speech like a true poet: by reciting poetry. “By-and-by, by-and-by, I'm gonna lay down, my heavy load,†she sang to the ...
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