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- Taken by the river he loved - Twin Falls Times-News
Months before making his final whitewater voyage, Bill Studebaker foresaw taking his last breath in an Idaho river. The body of Studebaker, who drowned in a whitewater kayaking accident Friday on the East Fork of the South Fork of the Salmon River ...
- Mean Green Machine - Article.nationalreview.com
T oward the end of The Incredible Hulk , two anonymous soldiers find themselves facing down a grotesquely overmuscled, ten-foot-tall, mutant monster of a man smashing his way through a city block in Harlem. After realizing that their sidearms do ...
- One's choice of language should always come from the heart - El Paso Times
One's choice of language should always come from the heartEl Paso Times, TX - 12 hours agoLet a child learn Spanish because he is enamored with the poetry of Neruda, or Russian because the land of Pushkin has cast a spell over him, ...
- W H Auden struggles for the conch - Daily Telegraph
A face disguised as a dried riverbed. I met Auden at dinner shortly after he moved to Christ Church from St Mark's Place in New York. Photographs of that iconic, seamed face didn't prepare me for the distressed reality. It was past plastic surgery ...
- Mary Whitehouse is the real monster (Times Online)
One of the least pressing problems of the 21st century is that we don’t have a postmodern Mary Whitehouse. Ann Widdecombe was almost it, but the peroxide hair ruined it. Edwina Currie showed early promise, but then kissed and told and told and told.
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - FOX News
Michael Norton _ who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press _ died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Norton chronicled the turmoil that followed former dictator Jean-Claude ...
- Albania sticks with who's stronger... Today's US is the USSR of ... - Комсомольская правда
Albania sticks with who's stronger... Today's US is the USSR of ...Комсомольская правда, Russia - 3 hours agoSocrates knew our poetry much better than I — the daughter of a Russian poet. He recited brilliantly, drinking red wine and demanding Soviet songs. ...
- 2008 Philadelphia Book Festival Blends Books, Music, High-Tech Games ... - Yahoo Finance
PHILADELPHIA, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 60 of the nation's top writers, including celebrity author Barbara Walters, will gather in Philadelphia for the second Philadelphia Book Festival, the Free Library's annual celebration of reading and ...
- Feast for eyes & ears - Tonight
Feast for eyes & earsTonight, South Africa - 7 hours agoPatti Smith: Dream of Life is narrated by Smith herself and follows her over 11 years of international travel, through her poetry, paintings, ...
- Reliving Grandma Tales - Delhi Newsline
Reliving Grandma TalesDelhi Newsline, India - 10 hours agoThe techinque brings back the fading activity tools like cartooning, puppetry, poetry recitals and general knowledge tests into focus. ...
- Around Town - Beaufort Gazette
•A class on the basics of chess is offered from 4 to 5 p.m. every Tuesday at St. Helena Branch Library, 1025 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena Island. The library shares a space in the St. Helena Elementary School's media center off Eddings Point Road ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways _ and the redemptive power ...
- Obama wrong on abortion - La Crosse Tribune
Sen. Barack Obama has passed any pro-abortion organization’s litmus test with flying colors, and for good reason. Obama’s voting record shows that there is no unborn child he would vote to protect. It doesn’t matter the gestational age of the ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (The Star)
"Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'"
- Modern feminist dialogue wears ladylike veneer - Eureka Street
Eureka StreetModern feminist dialogue wears ladylike veneerEureka Street, Australia - 2 hours agoIt will be difficult for bookshops to house the book as its genre is wonderfully hybrid: crime fiction/poetry. The work has some of the trappings of a ...
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