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- Calling Hours Planned for Buffalo Contractor (R News)
The body of a western New York military contractor abducted and killed in Iraq is back home. Jonathan Cote's remains arrived in Buffalo Monday. His family and a military honor guard met the casket at the airport. Calling hours are set for Wednesday and Thursday.
- Celebration was a relaxed event - Latah Eagle
Latah EagleCelebration was a relaxed eventLatah Eagle, ID - Apr 24, 2008Barbara Paulson read a poem that she had written about trees. Margaret True told some anecdotes about Robert Frost and read some of his less familiar tree ...
- Beach Writer's contest winners announced - Cape May County Herald
Beach Writer's contest winners announcedCape May County Herald, United States - 2 hours agoSecond prizewinner in the poetry segment was awarded to Don Mortensen of Roselle. Winner of Infinity Publishing Company’s $700 door prize toward the ...
- Who are the real lesbians? - The Independent
Ever since Sappho wrote of her feelings for other women, the Greek island of Lesbos where she lived has had its own place in the dictionary. But now its modern residents have begun a campaign to reclaim the term for themselves. John Walsh reports ...
- Rude awakening - Times Online
Times OnlineRude awakeningTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoBut when we opened it, it was a vase from Grayson with paintings of me, Sheba and Tabitha and a verse of poetry. It is so personal and by far the best piece ...
- Did Robert Kennedy run 'The Last Campaign'? - Chicago Sun-Times
Always pungently observant, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, came up with an apt description of Robert Kennedy as he campaigned in 1968: “Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest.’’ She commented on a ...
- Lost histories - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukLost historiesguardian.co.uk, UK - May 9, 2008In the second part he and three of his siblings flee to an imagined England of fair play and romantic poetry, only to find that "here they were nobodies". ...
- 'Book of hours' has rare female voice - Boston Globe
Mary Dockray-Miller has dug in musty libraries from London to Paris - and now Copley Square. The latter has provided her with surprising research material right in her own backyard. Dockray-Miller, who teaches English literature at Lesley University ...
- Poet keeps win close to chest - Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki Daily NewsPoet keeps win close to chestTaranaki Daily News, New Zealand - 19 minutes agoFormerly from New Plymouth, Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category for her collection, Cold Snack. ...
- Celebrating the life of Ben Linder (Oregon Daily Emerald)
Inspired by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a socialist political party that ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s and helped some of the nation's poorest people, Ben Linder of Portland moved to Nicaragua after graduating from the University of Washington in 1983. A mechanical engineer, he worked on hydroelectric projects to provide energy to schools, clinics and farms.
- Rank and File - Herald Tribune
Blessed are the list makers, with their sharp pencils, their certainties, their mix of words and numbers. Walt Whitman made lists. Nabokov made lists. Last year, while declaring in Time magazine that “literary lists are basically an obscenity ...
- Playboy, Mad magazine cartoonist Elder dead at 86 - Newsday
WASHINGTON - Will Elder, an early cartoonist for Mad magazine who spent 25 years illustrating Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" strip, which parodied the magazine's fetish for buxom women, died of Parkinson's disease May 15 at the Jewish Home at ...
- Juneteenth events to include fest, walk (El Paso Times)
While the possibility that Sen. Barack Obama could become the country's first black president will loom large over Saturday's annual Juneteenth Celebration, it won't be an official part of the outdoor festival.
- Poetry slam gives students public voice - Asheville Citizen-Times
Poetry slam gives students public voiceAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 48 minutes ago“If everyone in the world was a poet — it sounds cheesy — but I think it’d be a better place,†said Chang, who began writing with the poetry exercises in ...
- Spoor Blog: Missing an old friend who called to say 'cheers' - PGA
SOUTHPORT, England -- We heard from Fraser on Thursday. Therefore, Thursday was a good day. Some of you may recall my diaries about Fraser Gemmell and his family last year from Carnoustie. He was the general manager of Letham Grange Golf Club, a ...
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