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- Perugia Murder: What Defense Lawyers Are Planning (Newsweek)
Seattle student Amanda Knox and two others have finally been charged with the Perugia murder of a British student. How their lawyers plan to defend them.
- Words to touch the invisible - Brisbane Times
Words to touch the invisibleBrisbane Times, Australia - May 25, 2008And fellow poet Adam Thorpe reckons, "If genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music. ...
- Chicago's Tony haul - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago's Tony haulChicago Sun-Times, United States - 1 hour ago(ANSWER: Thunderous) As expected, “August,†which puts a literate, sharply comic, decidedly Jerry Springer-like edge on a dysfunctional family, nabbed the ...
- Insane Political Ad Must Be A Joke - Gawker
This campaign ad that's been making the rounds, for Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, is such a complete self-parody that it must be an intentional joke. From the John Wayne voice-over to the longtime lawyers' ridiculous cowboy outfits to the ...
- Arm in arm with Bob Dylan (The Daily News)
NEW YORK — It was one of the most iconic record album covers ever released, and Suze Rotolo was part of it: On a snowy day in 1963, she snuggled with Bob Dylan as the two walked down a Greenwich Village street. “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan†went on to become one of his best-known records, but the long-haired girl on his arm was always a mystery.
- Found in translation (Hindustan Times)
In India, we keep translating every moment of our life and most of us are bilingual if not multilingual by necessity. We often mix languages and shift from one to another almost unconsciously in our everyday speech.
- Poetic justice retires from bench - London Free Press
Poetic justice retires from benchLondon Free Press, Canada - 1 hour agoBy JANE SIMS Under the black gown, red sash and white tabs lurks the heart of a poet. Saturday, on his 75th birthday, the Honorable Justice Edward Browne of ...
- Senior's Search for Perfect Husband - Trinity Tripod (subscription)
Senior's Search for Perfect HusbandTrinity Tripod (subscription), CT - May 2, 2008Forget the Art History and Creative Writing classes, no one wants a needy BF who likes to do weird things like write poetry and stare incessantly at ...
- Teacher remembers the hard work of one-room schools in the 1930s - LeRoy Independent
Teacher remembers the hard work of one-room schools in the 1930sLeRoy Independent, MN - 4 hours agoLike poetry, the Gettysburg Address, and the like. We had a strict curriculum, and I consider we had a pretty good education in grade school," she says. ...
- Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize (AP via Yahoo! News)
Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.
- Kasargod: M Vyasa no more - Mangalorean.com
Kasargod: M Vyasa no moreMangalorean.com, India - 2 hours agoA litterateur who had always been away from publicity, Vyasa had published story compilations 'Kritha' (1998), 'Kambani' (1965), poetry anthologies 'Suli', ...
- The stranger in my bed - East African Standard
As a young girl my best friend and I loved to dream about getting married one day. We always wanted to have a double wedding because we believed that we would be the best friends forever who would be proposed to at the same time. Unfortunately, life ...
- Black Lips Are Taking ChartBlog To Hell... - BBC Brasil
OK, slightly over-dramatic headline there...but if you listen to the interview below, you'll understand. The basic facts are these. Black Lips are a nicely scruffy band from the southern states of America, and they've got this great new song called ...
- A unique upbringing: Schrand explores his childhood in his memoir ... - Moscow-Pullman Daily News
A unique upbringing: Schrand explores his childhood in his memoir ...Moscow-Pullman Daily News, ID - 1 hour agoHe started writing poetry in college and published an underground newspaper at Southern Utah University, which led to his foray into nonfiction. ...
- The Sorrows of an American (The New Yorker)
I’m lost,†a patient tells her psychiatrist in Hustvedt’s fourth novel. “I’m cold. I’m all alone.†She might be speaking for all the characters in this sombre meditation on the isolation of urban professionals, in which daily routines are nothing but “pillars in an architecture of need,†erotic love is . . .
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