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- Obama rekindles the moment of JFK - Age
M EMORIES are short; history dims. The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama is the first candidate to address 75,000 rapturous fans in a sports stadium to accept the nomination of his party to become President of the United States. He was not. To ...
- Oberlin celebrates 175th anniversary this weekend (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
OBERLIN — The community will celebrate its 175th anniversary in activities tonight and Saturday. These events are free and open to the public. Various organizations and individuals are participating, including Oberlin College, Oberlin Schools, the Oberlin Heritage Center, Oberlin Shansi, the Community Music School and the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra. The [...]
- An insurmountable library (Berkshire Eagle)
LENOX — When Edith Wharton's estate, The Mount, spent $2.6 million on the novelist's 2,600-volume personal library in December 2005, heads turned: Serious financial limbo for a bunch of books?
- Chris Satullo: Your chance to help promote the arts - Philiy.com
Political discussion is most often about problems - decrying them, blaming them on someone, arguing over how to solve them. Less often is the dialogue about strengths - how to protect and build upon them. That's a shame, because exploiting assets ...
- Despite Pacino and De Niro, "Kill" is no thrill" - Philadelphia Inquirer
Despite Pacino and De Niro, "Kill" is no thrill"Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 3 hours agoBecause the murderer leaves doggerel at the murder site, he is dubbed "the poetry killer." But to the young turks in the department, the old turks are "like ...Video: De Niro and Pacino Team Up for a Righteous Kill AssociatedPressall 230 news articles
- Charles Spencer wonders if verse is worse - Daily Telegraph
Things are going from bad to worse,/ Our stages flooded with dodgy verse./ It's really getting up my nose,/ Please let's return to decent prose. Preposterous tosh: Fram is a rhymed epic about a Scandanavian polar explorer I'm sorry to sound a ...
- John Burnside Profile - guardian.co.uk
John Burnside Profileguardian.co.uk, UK - 15 hours agoHis first poetry collection, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and was followed by Common Knowledge (1991). Feast Days (1992), won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial ...
- World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today. It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes ...
- Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys - Variety
Tyler Perry's The Family That PreysVariety, CA - 2 hours agoHis dialogue may lack poetry, but he finds it in the Lee Ann Womack anthem "I Hope You Dance," later covered by Gladys Knight over the end credits. ...
- Last updated at 5:04 PM on 25th July 2008 - Daily Mail
Daily MailLast updated at 5:04 PM on 25th July 2008Daily Mail, UK - 27 minutes agoJOHN HEGLEY is a poet with Apples & Snakes, England's leading organisation for performance poetry, and will be celebrating its 25th anniversary by appearing ...
- Hyderabad observes 100 years of great Musi floods (New Kerala)
Hyderabad, Sep 28 : With exhibitions and a poetry reading under a historic tamarind tree, Hyderabadis Sunday observed the 100th anniversary of the great Musi floods that had left a trail of death and destruction and shaped the city as it is today.
- Obama's poems show real talent level - WorldNetDaily
Their fangs, dance ... Los Angeles media critic Kevin Roderick rightly described the exposure of Obama's two published poems as a "semi-cruel exercise." In a similar spirit, the Independent of London headlined its article on Obama's early poetry ...
- Fall Arts Week: Books & Literature - Calgary Herald
Calgary HeraldFall Arts Week: Books & LiteratureCalgary Herald, Canada - 3 hours agoWhat: Along with husband David, Scollard is owner of Frontenac House, a long-standing Calgary-based small literary press that focuses on poetry. ...
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 - Metapsychology
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008Metapsychology, NY - 2 hours agoFond of a rather high-flown style of prose, he saves his most melodramatic turns of phrase for rhapsodizing about melancholy folk-- those "gloomy souls who ...
- Lean, Mean and Quick Blue Devils Get Ready for '08 Opener Against Iroquois (East Aurora Advertiser)
Are you ready for some football? Anyone who was at Ralph Wilson Stadium last Nov. 2--and there were at least a thousand of us--to watch the Blue Devils come within a couple of yards of taking the Class B Section VI Championship is probably as anxious for the season to start as are fifth-year coach Tim Wade's varsity players. That opening game against Iroquois on Sept. 4 at the High School can't ...
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