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- Lingual juggle (The Star)
I’m like a different person when I speak in a different language, changing personas to match the switching codes.
- New Figures Show Drop In Teen Smoking - NY1
New Figures Show Drop In Teen SmokingNY1, NY - Oct 1, 2008According to some new data released by the New York State Department of Health today, the number of high school students who smoke cigarettes dropped two ...
- A Big Read: Ray Bradbury biographer coming to Waterbury to ... - Waterbury Republican American
A Big Read: Ray Bradbury biographer coming to Waterbury to ...Waterbury Republican American, CT - 5 hours agoBradbury has written 30 books, including novels, poetry, short story collections and screenplays. Despite his widespread popularity, many people are put off ...
- China's poetry recital stars find fame with Internet vote (People's Daily)
A middle-aged primary school teacher reciting a 1,300-year-old poem could become China's answer to an American Idol-type superstar thanks to on-line voting in a government-sponsored competition. The 40-year-old from the eastern Anhui Province, Fang Baojiu, was leading the field of 179 performers one week into the three-week poetry recital contest with more than 38,060 votes as of Friday evening. ...
- Sumner Redstone can't escape life in the goldfish bowl - Times Online
Someone really has it in for Sumner Redstone, the 85-year-old media tycoon who is restructuring his debt-plagued empire. An extraordinary piece appears on TheFirstPost.co.uk and is picked up elsewhere. “His demons have come home to roost. He lives ...
- Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish (Al-Ahram Weekly)
It is five years today -- Thursday 25 September -- since the death of the Palestinian public intellectual and political activist Edward Said, "the most brilliantly eloquent emissary of Palestine to the outside world" in the words of an equally eloquent and brilliant fellow compatriot -- Mahmoud Darwish.
- Upcoming Events - Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Upcoming EventsSmoky Mountain Sentinel, NC - Sep 16, 2008This free event is open to the public and features morning poetry readings by 2008 Brockman Campbell Book Award winner Becky Gould Gibson, Brockman Campbell ...
- West Island community notes - Westmount Examiner
West Island community notesWestmount Examiner, Canada - 4 hours agoCreative Writers’ Association is looking for members interested in expressing themselves through fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and prose. ...
- PODCAST: No tricks here, only sweet, delicious treats ... the kind you ... - MLive.com
Get ready for Halloween with your favorite local brews and get a preview of an upcoming feature on a local invention that will not only change your homebrewing life but also give your back a little break too. That's just a bite-sized taste of the ...
- Fall ArtsWalk: Art, poetry, music, movies and more at this year's ... - Muncie Star Press
Fall ArtsWalk: Art, poetry, music, movies and more at this year's ...Muncie Star Press, IN - 7 hours agoDemonstrations of BSU Museum of Art's Digital Images Delivered Online project. A Friday Night Film Series by BSU and Muncie filmmakers. ...
- Anna's birth centenary celebrations begin in TN - Chennai Online
Chennai, Sept 15 : The year-long celebrations of the birth centenary of DMK founder and late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C N Annadurai got off to a start all over the state today. While the ruling DMK celebrated the occasion by unveiling various ...
- Uncommon voice of the common - The Age
Uncommon voice of the commonThe Age, Australia - 6 minutes agoIn a culture in which poetry is mostly the preoccupation of small coteries and where many major publishing companies have ceased to publish it at all, ...
- Dalek Poetry Reading - The Spoof (satire)
The Spoof (satire)Dalek Poetry ReadingThe Spoof (satire), UK - 3 hours agoA recent poetry evening, organised by Lenny Smith, a 37 year old Dalek was said to be a complete disaster. Smith, a peace loving Dalek, completely at odds ...
- Take it easy, but take it - LA Observed
Take it easy, but take itLA Observed, CA - 10 hours agoIt’sa shame Studs Terkel didn’t live to see the election of our nation’s first African American president, but on the eve of this historic election, ...
- Manscaping Monologues (AdWeek)
Was it only three years ago that the chest-waxing scene in The 40 Year Old Virgin caused such a ruckus? Well, manscaping time must be like dog years: We have come so far in the mainstreaming of male hair removal since then that a chest wax is no longer shocking or wince-worthy.
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