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- On issues, Obama poetry won't rhyme - Everett Herald
Barack Obama is such a stand-up guy that he'll stand up twice -- once for each side of an issue. The poetry reading on change and hope is over. Now that he has to talk about real policy, there's little rhyme in the rhythm. Take James Johnson, who was ...
- Soloveitchik’s students preparing series of his work - New Jersey Jewish Standard
Soloveitchik’s students preparing series of his workNew Jersey Jewish Standard, NJ - 15 hours agoPosner said that the Kinot project brings together his interest in Soloveitchik’s insights and in Jewish liturgical poetry. Most of these elegies, ...
- Major gift of work by Max Gimblett to Auckland gallery (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Belinda McCammon of NZPA talks to artist Max Gimblett about exhibiting at the Guggenheim and why museums are crucial.
- Animal whisperers come out of the shadows - Star-Press
NEW YORK -- Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their "cat whisperer," and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10 ...
- PAUL HAYWARD: Federer falls but he goes down with grace (Evening Standard)
When kings tumble, they should fall like this, with valour, with the crowd thrilled and exhausted, with a light trained on all the human virtues sport brings out.
- Death Cab Reaches New Heights - New University Online
Death Cab Reaches New HeightsNew University Online, CA - 58 minutes agoA lot of the poetry in rap has been watered down to an obnoxious bass line, along with a rapper that rhymes the word “grill” repeatedly. ...
- At last, Murdoch breaks his silence on Brown - guardian.co.uk
At last, Murdoch breaks his silence on Brownguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoAndrew Motion was extremely good at that end of it - at getting more funding and attention for poetry. It's nothing to do with being a good poet. ...
- Poetry is in motion around us daily - Elmira Star-Gazette
Poetry is in motion around us dailyElmira Star-Gazette, NY - 6 hours agoAs a young girl, I preferred to read and write poetry that rhymed. Although most of my love poems until my mid-20s were in rhyming verse, upon becoming a ...
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- Close Shave (MetroActive)
BUTCHLALIS de Panochtitlan—L.A. butch performance artists Raquel Gutierrez, Mari Garcia and Claudia Rodriguez—explored a new dimension in their full-length piece, The Barber of East L.A., which played over the weekend at MACLA following a week's residency by the troupe.
- English is killing Malema - The Times
English is killing MalemaThe Times, South Africa - 21 hours agoAll I meant to write about was the intricacies of the queen’s tongue, the vagaries of this language we love so much. It just so happens that Malema is the ...
- With the eyes of a child - Allentown Morning Call
With the eyes of a childAllentown Morning Call, PA - 3 hours agoThe barrel, about 4 feet high, was jampacked with mementos of a school year spent learning how to write poetry, recreating a wax museum hero and learning ...
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif - Philadelphia Inquirer
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Music can be path to language and math - Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON - The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making school fun. Michael Bitz won a national competition with his idea for ...
- City to institutionalize Rizal's b-day celebration - Sun.Star
City to institutionalize Rizal's b-day celebrationSun.Star, Philippines - 3 hours agoThe program was highlighted by poetry readings in honor of Rizal from local Kapampangan poets Felix Garcia and Frank Guinto. "The young generation should be ...
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