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- Chasing the truth in Chile - San Francisco Gate
When a former bishop was democratically elected president of Paraguay last month, it signaled the end of another "southern-cone" dictatorship in Latin America. Elizabeth Farnsworth, in her North Beach office, was exultant. "The priest won!" she said ...
- Bedside reader for inconsolable widowers - DAWN Group
In the fifties to which septuagenarians retreat at the faintest smell of good, our cozy city of Rawalpindi had only one lady who was known to be a practising poet. She was Rabia Fakhri, a slight person, fragile and in decrepit health, you would see ...
- Lord Tweedsmuir: Novelist and son of John Buchan who inherited his father's talent but was disappointed of literary fame (Independent)
If all John Buchan's children had it hard, his second son, William, had it hardest. Endowed with his father's literary talent, he yet could not hope to match John Buchan in his other occupations of strategy, high policy, business, sport, action. Lacking his father's industry, he was burdened with his ambition, his restlessness, his romance of spirit and his weakness for tobacco. Though ...
- Can Art Be Rated From 1 to 1,000? - Wall Street Journal
James Surowiecki’s best-selling book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” made a case for the power of numbers in decisionmaking: A large group of independent, nonexpert thinkers can, when aggregated, often beat a single expert. But the book focuses on ...
- Change v. Experience – or Both? - 411mania.com
Change v. Experience – or Both?411mania.com, TX - 13 hours agoHowever, as President Clinton wisely observed, "we campaign in poetry, but we govern in prose." Where the rhetoric meets the road is where we learn what a ...
- Dale Patterson: A Somerville poet with many hats - Somerville News
Dale Patterson: A Somerville poet with many hatsSomerville News, MA - 1 hour agoI lived in a house that William Dean Howells resided in, perhaps this inspired my writing. But I really like Somerville. DH: The poetry I have seen from you ...
- Oratorio Singers to join symphony - Charlotte.com
One of the most powerful and popular of all choral works grew from medieval poems discovered in a Bavarian monastery centuries after their creation. The poems were the work of a group of free spirits called goliards, whose verses celebrated the joys ...
- Zimbabwe: Nyanga Arts Festival Opens - AllAfrica.com
Zimbabwe: Nyanga Arts Festival OpensAllAfrica.com, Washington - 6 hours agoThe event, which coincides with Culture Week commemorations, is expected to showcase various cultural activities that include music, poetry, drama and ...
- The Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs - Computerworld
The Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List BlogsComputerworld, Norway - 1 hour agoWhile they may not have the right amount of link love, they need to be on your radar screens. Computerworlds internasjonale nyheter leveres av IDG News ...
- Heart and Sole being put into Snow White - Belfast Telegraph
While most of us have been enjoying our first taste of sun this summer, Londonderry company Sole Purpose has been spending the past couple of weeks putting the finishing touches to its latest production. So what have they got lined up for us? A ...
- Whatever you say, say something... - Guardian Unlimited
When World at One presenter Nick Clarke died more than a year ago, his widow found that some people avoided her, as if tragedy could prove contagious. At the school gates, most mothers did not know what to say ... and said nothing. A year later, in I ...
- Olivier Dintinger–exemplar of the culturati (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - When Alliance Française director Olivier Dintinger was posted in Manila directly from Reykjavik, he experienced what he calls “thermic shock”—what frozen food must have gone through when plunged straight into the frying pan without the respite of thawing.
- Luis Alberto Urrea to Speak at S.B. Writers Conference (Santa Barbara Independent)
There was a lot that made you love San Diego in the early ’90s.
- Pledged to Obama - Wall Street Journal
Amid months of fervent campaigning on behalf of Barack Obama, Jody Rodgers of Seattle ran a side campaign -- stringing up banners and passing out buttons, making stump speeches at the neighborhood elementary school and courting constituents at the ...
- Poems hide in newspapers - Tacoma News Tribune
You could be holding in your hands the start of a great poem. Figure out which words don’t belong, then share your work with us. Sometimes in poetry, it’s not so much about the words you use but the words you leave out. Or scratch out. Or blot ...
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