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- Loraine Anderson: Lakes too special to lose (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
I love the Great Lakes and walking along Lake Michigan. I love the sense of peace and poetry the "big lake" stirs in me, the way it clears minds and opens hearts. I like looking at pictures shot from space and seeing Michigan floating smack dab in the middle of the Great Lakes basin. In recent years I've come to worry about this magnificent watershed.
- Irom Sharmila: Eight years on, and still fighting - MorungExpress
Irom Sharmila: Eight years on, and still fightingMorungExpress, India - 2 hours agoSubsequently, we discussed books whenever we met -- Buddhist texts, Manipuri poetry, the newspapers, Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries, Swami Rama’s Mystics ...
- Poems from students tout Star and Stripes - Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
Poems from students tout Star and StripesGloucester County Times - NJ.com, NJ - 4 hours ago"My poem is called The Great American Flag'," said Bob Morison, 10. "It talks about the flag crying and speaking and doing all the things it would do if it ...
- Gift to help BYU promote the arts - Deseret News
Gift to help BYU promote the artsDeseret News, UT - 3 hours agoBy Elizabeth Stuart PROVO — History lessons brought to life through theater and poetry, social problems taught using painting and music, ...
- Hadrian and the wall of silence - Daily Telegraph
Feeling that his life was ebbing away, the Emperor Hadrian composed a letter to his successor around AD137. It began: "The Emperor Caesar Augustus to his most esteemed Antoninus, greeting. Above all, I want you to know that I am being released from ...
- All the theater's a stage for 'Cinderella' - Rocky Mountain News
On the list of moms deserving of praise on Mother's Day, Cinderella's probably won't show in the Top 10, but that isn't stopping Boulder Ballet from performing that fairy- tale saga on Sunday. Yes, we know, that nasty woman was Cinderella's step ...
- The big gigs (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Music lovers know that Matisyahu is a Hasidic Jew, so he won't perform after sundown on Fridays. But sunset isn't until 9 p.m., so the highly entertaining, thought-provoking, reggae-loving rapper will start his show early tonight. (7:15 p.m. today Weesner Family Amphitheater, Minnesota Zoo, $34.)
- Lonely life as commoner for Nepal's former king (AFP via Yahoo! News)
With few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life of Nepal's ousted king as a commoner is by all accounts a lonely, meditative one.
- My language, my birthright - Dispatch Online
My language, my birthrightDispatch Online, South Africa - 38 minutes ago“They forget that hip- hop is just poetry. Rapping in isiXhosa is not as easy as it seems because our lyrics have to flow nicely with the instruments and ...
- A poet well-versed in North Korea's pain (Asia Times)
SEOUL - A former court poet for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has become a best-selling author and media sensation in South Korea, where his poems about the brutality of everyday life in North Korea have now been published for the first time.
- National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Books for the Big Read (Kansas City InfoZine)
Communities looking to rekindle their love of reading by joining the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reading initiative The Big Read will now have even more great books to choose from.
- A source of inspiration and relief: calligraphy - Today's Zaman
Today's ZamanA source of inspiration and relief: calligraphyToday's Zaman, Turkey - 3 hours agoThe taliq script is used for poetry and is the script most used to write Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The sixth major style is diwani, a script developed by ...
- The Self-Help Guide to Wagner - NPR News
NPR.org , May 29, 2008 - Love him or hate him, if you're a fan of classical music, and especially opera, you have to contend with Richard Wagner, the controversial composer who made sweeping changes in the arts. His life, music, and legacy continue ...
- Javed Akhtar mixes poetry with management (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Though he was there to release a book on management, well-known Hindi film lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar gave in to the request of the audience and recited some of his poems here Sunday.
- English too hard for students, principal says - News.com.au
English 'beyond intellectual ability' of most students Students just want to read books - principal Curriculum 'should be what community wants' THE head of one of the nation's elite private schools has questioned whether English should be compulsory ...
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