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- Flying through life's regrets (San Jose Mercury News)
Talk about timing: In April, American Airlines grounded more than 1,000 flights, many of them out of Chicago, to check electrical connections on its fleet of MD-80s.
- Venturing Out: Latitude Festival in review - Drowned In Sound
Artists: Snow Patrol , Mogwai , Part Chimp , The Zutons , The Veils , Youthmovies , Polytechnic , The Pipettes , Mystery Jets , Regina Spektor , Antony And The Johnsons , My Latest Novel , Guillemots , King Creosote , Noisettes , The Early Years ...
- Changing roles at Wordsworth Trust - NW Evening Mail
Changing roles at Wordsworth TrustNW Evening Mail, UK - 5 hours agoHis accomplishments at the trust – a centre for British romantic poetry – include reducing costs and increasing visitor numbers. ...
- St. Prosper of Aquitaince - Catholic Online
Called "the best disciple of Augustine," St. Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 370-c. 463/465) devoted his life to defending Augustine's doctrines of grace and predestination against those who opposed it. Prosper may have been born at Limoges; he may have ...
- Jihad-book accused 'wrote for magazine' (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
A man accused of producing a book promoting jihad terrorist acts was part of the publishing team of a Sydney Islamic magazine, a NSW Supreme Court jury heard.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - The National
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish diesThe National, United Arab Emirates - Aug 10, 2008Mr Darwish’s life and poetry were tightly bound up in a struggle for a Palestinian national rebirth that seems little closer now than when his first work ...
- Rock the Mullahs - Slate
In the predictable universe of the illness memoir, doctors save by diagnosis and fail by misdiagnosis, alleviate symptoms or unintentionally increase them, order too many tests or refuse to test enough. Patients are the authors of these accounts, but ...
- Billy Bragg, - LA Weekly
LA WeeklyBilly Bragg,LA Weekly, CA - 8 hours agoHe follows it up with "The Warmest Room" from 1986's Talking With the Taxman About Poetry. Bragg's alone on stage in a light blue shirt with a sliver guitar ...
- Rooms without a view - Financial Times
T he drama of “The Scream†and the poetry of silence: Edvard Munch, born in 1863, and Vilhelm Hammershoi, born 1864, are the only Nordic painters in history who outgrew their native countries to become a presence in European art. In 2005, the ...
- Palestinian poet dies in Texas - Washington Post
Resize RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. A hospital spokeswoman in Houston said the 67-year-old poet had died ...
- Elizabeth Bartlett - Guardian Unlimited
The poet Elizabeth Bartlett, who has died aged 84, drew upon her experience working in the NHS and cash-strapped social services to create a body of work characterised by uncompromising honesty in its confrontations with physical and mental illness ...
- Around Town - Juneau Empire
Boys & Girls Club of Juneau, 2:30 p.m. every Monday, 8825 Mallard St., behind the Nugget Mall. Open noon-7 p.m. on days school is closed or dismissed earlier. Details: 790-4534, 790-4535. Alaska Youth Choir auditions, 5-7 p.m., Northern Light United ...
- Poster poems: The rhymes of war - Guardian Blogs
An art less martial ... Members of the "Last Post to the Pals" march across the Somme battlefields, France, June 2006. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA "Arms, and the man I sing" wrote Virgil , or something very like it . Whatever the merits of Dryden's ...
- Local Authors: Poet shares his witticisms - The Evening Sun
Local Authors: Poet shares his witticismsThe Evening Sun, PA - 3 hours agoSo I stumbled across the book, "Ninety-Nine Whimsical Juvenile Witticisms" by Ed Starkey, of Dover, that is poetry about bein' a kid. The poetry is broken ...
- Arjun Rampal as Joe Mascarenhas - Oneindia
Arjun Rampal as Joe MascarenhasOneindia, India - 2 hours agoHe has flare for unconventional poetry but at the same time with a message for today's youth makes him an instant hit with Generation X. He is the lead ...
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