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- Michael Strauss, Palm Beach Daily News sports editor dies (Palm Beach Daily News)
One of the most durable and fascinating careers in journalism came to a close Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, with the death of Michael Strauss, the Palm Beach Daily News' sports editor since 1983, who came to Palm Beach after spending half a century at the New York Times. He was 96.
- DSO pieces create movement in time - Fort Worth Star Telegram
DSO pieces create movement in timeFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 1 hour ago... Elgar’s choral poem The Music Makers seemed of another era. The two pieces had much in common, though. The poetry of both spoke of the musician’s ...
- Ferdowsi narrated tragic scenes with subtle satire: Ehterami - Tehran Times
He made a speech elaborating on the “Satire in Shahnameh” during a meeting at the Tehran’s Book City main branch on Wednesday. “Hyperbole brings gratification to the epic genre. Exaggeration and contrast between the legend and reality attract ...
- Female doctor writes of life in Saudi Arabia (The MetroWest Daily News)
Most job contracts don't include mentions of the death penalty, but when Dr. Qanta A. Ahmed agreed to a new job in a Saudi Arabian hospital she became subject to the laws of that country which, as she writes in her memoir, can include decapitation.
- Bullets - Events for Oct. 16- 22, 2008 in Western Garfield County, Colorado (Rifle Citizen Telegram)
• The Rifle Elks Club, 501 W. 5th St., hosts progressive bingo every Thursday that is open to the public. Early bird is at 6:30 p.m., regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. Info: 625-2195.
- Acclaimed Editor and Children's Authors Read at St. Matthew's - Palisadian-Post
Palisadian-PostAcclaimed Editor and Children's Authors Read at St. Matthew'sPalisadian-Post, CA - 2 hours ago'Hate That Cat' is a sequel to her best seller 'Love That Dog,' a story about a student, Jack, written as a collection of his poetry. ...
- Time has taken its toll - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphTime has taken its tollCalcutta Telegraph, India - 12 hours agoLoss of youth is a popular theme in Urdu poetry. The picture of an old man crippled with age, walking with his head bent low as if searching for something ...
- Gathering of authors - Pasadena Star-News
It was a love of books, authors, reading, or a combination of all, that led hundreds to Westminster Gardens in Duarte on Saturday to see more than 40 authors and a half-dozen artists participate in the sixth annual Festival of Authors. There ...
- Write lines - This is Sentinel
WRITE LINES: Budding wordsmith Rhiannon Rhodes beat off hundreds of entrants to win a Young Writers poetry competition. The teenager, who wrote the poem last year, aged 16, will now have her work published in an anthology called Away With Words ...
- ‘Landscape’ photographers explore natural boundaries - Bowdoin Orient
‘Landscape’ photographers explore natural boundariesBowdoin Orient, ME - 3 hours agoThe two different types of photos add more overall tonal complexity to the question of politics versus poetry. "Black and white abstracts the world, ...
- Alan Cruise-Johnston - SOUNZ
Alan Cruise-Johnston’s enthusiasm for choral music was kindled at Christchurch Boys’ High School singing the works of Griffiths and Galway under the inspired baton of Clifton Cook. His years at Victoria University of Wellington with Page and ...
- Hardeep Singh Kohli - Scotsman
Hardeep Singh KohliScotsman, United Kingdom - 56 minutes agoSongs that mean something, stories with characters, with deep emotional content and no shortage of poetry. (Ricky Ross introduced me to Maynard Keynes, ...
- ODDS AND ENDS: Italy the theme for a fundraiser, zoo celebrates ... - MLive.com
Italy is the theme this year for the fourth annual fundraising dinner/art auction benefiting the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University. "Saints, Sinners and Sopranos" runs from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 ...
- Dava Malcolm: A 'tweaker's' tale (Chico Enterprise-Record)
First of Three Parts OROVILLE -- Dava Malcolm is an intelligent, creative, black-eyed, brown-haired, 20-year-old woman, with a vocabulary that would make a Marine drill instructor blush.
- South Africa: Thabo Mbeki's Downfall (AllAfrica.com)
The strident clamour of calls for the ANC to axe the "lame-duck" President Thabo Mbeki is far from the epithets the country's leader once enjoyed as the crown prince who became the philosopher king and was hailed as Mr Delivery.
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