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- Ayoon Wa Azan (My Apologies to Many Readers) - Dar Al-Hayat
Ayoon Wa Azan (My Apologies to Many Readers)Dar Al-Hayat, Lebanon - 1 hour agoI have received requests for more poetry, which makes me think the readers are not interested in my opinion. I do not blame them. ...
- Seventh Generation Celebrates 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report - Forbes
Seventh Generation, the nation's top provider of environmentally preferable non-toxic household products and a founder of the corporate responsibility movement, is marking the release of its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report with a special contest ...
- Culture clinic: Nick Broomfield - Daily Telegraph
Milton Friedman's theories on free-market economy, which are responsible for the greed and extremely dangerous world we live in today. I've made a couple of really bad endings myself, but I'd have to say that most Spielberg endings aren't good. You ...
- Stokes Center welcomes noted authors (The Vanguard)
The University of South Alabama respected authors Charles Bernstein, Marjorie Perloff, and Hank Lazer Sept. 19 and 20. The authors conducted a panel discussion covering "Writing and the media in the 21st Century" and also read from their writings. This event was hosted by the Stokes Center for Creative Writing and the University of South Alabama department of English.
- Adjusting the Theory of Just War: Gary Bass's 'Freedom's Battle' (The New York Sun)
From the Vietnam War until the end of the Cold War, it was almost axiomatic that liberals would oppose every use of American military power. Defecting from that position was what qualified a former liberal as a neoconservative. But in the last 20 years, as the post-Holocaust promise "never again" was betrayed in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur, parts of the left began to reconsider the virtues of ...
- Alive and Kicking in The Bay City - Net Newsledger
Alive and Kicking in The Bay CityNet Newsledger, Canada - 4 hours agoFrom October 6-12, with conjunction with the Thunder Bay Public Library, 4th Annual Random Acts of Poetry: Thunder Bay Performance Project. ...
- Poet Laureate to give reading at Plymouth Library (The Patriot Ledger)
Robert Pinsky, who teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University, will appear at the library on Oct. 1.
- Literary Happenings: Focus also on writers' rights in China (Ventura County Star)
With the Olympic Games opening in Beijing this week, the eyes of the world are focused on China. But athletics isn't the only topic under discussion. There are literary concerns, too.
- I'll take (a) Manhattan - South Coast Today
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme ...
- PSC holds classes for nontraditional students - Mineral Daily News-Tribune
Potomac State College is again offering a wide variety of classes aimed at people who may not want to attend college, but still want to learn cool stuff. Like fine dining, digital photography, yoga, poetry, Internet retailing, and wine and beer ...
- Customer Service (Brandon Sun)
Raine Maida is a poet at heart. Where that poetry fits into his music has finally come into focus. Maida, frontman of Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace, has ventured out on an introspective solo disc, "The Hunter's Lullaby," engaging his love of progressive poetry.
- War of the words - Steamboat Pilot
War of the wordsSteamboat Pilot, CO - 11 hours ago“Good poetry should elicit emotion. After you read it, you should feel sad or angry or something. And when someone reads it aloud, it puts the force in it ...
- How a 'light bulb moment' led Wilks to change career course - Royal Gazette
Royal GazetteHow a 'light bulb moment' led Wilks to change career courseRoyal Gazette, Bermuda - 5 hours agoHe enjoys various forms of art including music, poetry and photography: "My artwork is about pure consciousness. This means absorbing everything around you, ...
- A Whole New Approach to Modern Art (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Science and art -- two distinctly different disciplines -- combine to create an exciting new family-fun adventure called ArtQuest, a hunt for art that began on August 8, 2008.
- Kenya: The Political Economy of Ethnic Identities in Country; The Paradox of Tribalism in Country (AllAfrica.com)
During the 2007 election campaign period and beyond some of the most virulent hate messages of an ethnic kind were to be found spilling over in Kenyan online communities, largely populated by young to middle aged Kenyans living in places like the United States, Sweden, Germany, Britain, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Canada, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, India and other places ...
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