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- Local Youths Produce Anti-Violence Commercial (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
After a violent summer that claimed the lives of too many of their peers, some DC kids are speaking out with a creative new video. A new 30-second commercial features local teens reading poetry they've written about the violence they've witnessed pleading for an end to the violence.
- Activism: Youth rally to 'Silence the Violence' (Pittsburgh City Paper)
On July 22nd, more than 100 youths from Pittsburgh's most violent neighborhoods gathered in Market Square for a peace rally. By Diana Fisher.
- Veep Sheet: Obama camp going to Ind.? - Yahoo News
BREAKING: In an encouraging sign for Bayh-for-veep supporters, the Nashville (Tenn.) Post is reporting that “senior campaign officials from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign are being dispatched from various locations around the country and ...
- DON NOBLE: Compilation of writings captures Capote's intrigue (The Tuscaloosa News)
When Truman Capote died in the home of Joanna Carson, Johnny Carson's ex-wife, in Los Angeles, on Aug. 25, 1984, he was world- famous and rich. Capote had homes in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Switzerland, the Caribbean and Palm Springs.
- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will host the Olympics Games for the rest of us…the Rejected Olympics.
- Emmett Till subject of Southern Quarterly - Hattiesburg American
Emmett Till subject of Southern QuarterlyHattiesburg American, MS - Aug 19, 2008Among the 15 poets who contributed works are Sonia Sanchez, considered by many scholars as one of the most prolific and distinguished African American poets ...
- What good is the Bard to book-shunning boys? - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukWhat good is the Bard to book-shunning boys?guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago... a boy on poetry, to start anyone on poetry for that matter? It's like force-feeding a child turnip and wondering why they grow up hating vegetables. ...
- Comunity Calendar - Pahrump Valley Times
Comunity CalendarPahrump Valley Times, NV - 1 hour agoPoetry Group -- 10 am-noon, Pahrump Community Library meeting room. VFW breakfast -- 8-11 am, VFW Post 10054, Homestead Road, $6, $7 or $8 donation ...
- McCain's Stunt Gridlock - Slate
The L.A. Daily News on its city's seeming unshrinkable downtown education bureaucracy : [A] Daily News review of salaries and staffing shows LAUSD's bureaucracy ballooned by nearly 20 percent from 2001 to 2007. Over the same period, 500 teaching ...
- It’s fair week and there’s plenty of excitement - Oshkosh Northwestern
It’s fair week and there’s plenty of excitementOshkosh Northwestern, WI - 8 hours agoThose include everything from electricity and cucumbers to poetry and music. In addition, junior fair exhibitors also have a bounty of animals, ...
- Obama introduces Biden as running mate - Delaware Online
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate in the race for the White House, tapping a former challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination who is widely considered his party’s expert on foreign affairs ...
- The Winchester Star - The Winchester Star
The Winchester StarThe Winchester Star, VA - 4 hours agoAngelou’s honors include a National Book Award nomination for “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings;†a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her book of poetry “Just ...
- GUEST OPINION: Improving schools: Just Do It!, 08-09-08 - Fall River Herald News
GUEST OPINION: Improving schools: Just Do It!, 08-09-08Fall River Herald News, USA - Aug 8, 2008Modern dance, poetry, neighborhood history and other creative subjects round out the school’s curriculum. The result: Students do better on tests and ...
- Literary Calendar: July 26- Aug. 1 - The Gazette (Montreal)
Literary Calendar: July 26- Aug. 1The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 4 hours agoDanielle Lafrance, Jesika Starnino, Jeffrey Mackie, Ilona Martonfi and Drew McKevitt read poetry at the Arts Café, 201 Fairmount Ave. ...
- Concert Review: Dinosaur Annex, Cantata Singers, and Collage New ... - Bostonist
Concert Review: Dinosaur Annex, Cantata Singers, and Collage New ...Bostonist, MA - 12 minutes agoVocal embellishments and the forced repetition of lines seemed to work against that back-of-a-napkin brevity that puts Williams' poetry at the opposite end ...
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