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- Saddam Feared US Would Give Him HIV - Sky.com
The Iraqi tyrant, who was hanged in 2006, kept a diary following his capture by US troops three years earlier. In extracts published by the London-based Arab daily Al Hayat, he reveals that he feared catching a sexually transmitted disease from his ...
- Islanders demand legal right to be 'true lesbians' - Belfast Telegraph
Ever since Sappho wrote of her feelings for other women, the Greek island of Lesbos where she lived has had its own place in the dictionary. But now its modern residents have begun a campaign to reclaim the term for themselves. John Walsh reports ...
- 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 Novel Reason for Rapture (Washington Post)
EXILES By Ron Hansen Farrar Straus Giroux. 227 pp. $23. Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about "Exiles," a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, "The Wreck of the ...
- Super Kid: Maggie Wicken, 17, senior, Darrington High School - HeraldNet
Super Kid: Maggie Wicken, 17, senior, Darrington High SchoolHeraldNet, WA - 18 minutes agoPoem passion: Writes poetry and competes at poetry slams in Seattle. Next chapter: Wants to be a novelist and poet and possibly teach high school. ...
- Writings And Influence Of Persian Poet Celebrated - Scoop
18 June 2008 - The writings of Abu Abdullah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki, the poet considered to have laid the foundations of Persian classical literature, should serve as an inspiration to international efforts to combat extremism and attempts to ...
- World premiere documentary tells the story of an unsung Canadian hero - Canada NewsWire (press release)
World premiere documentary tells the story of an unsung Canadian heroCanada NewsWire (press release), Canada - 43 minutes agoTORONTO, June 17 /CNW/ - He waged a public war against fascism and anti-Semitism, published critically acclaimed poetry, dined with movie stars and was ...
- IN THE LAND OF KINGS (Express India)
In Orchha, legends of a forgotten era come alive in folklore
- Making a film on a mobile set - El Dorado Hills Telegraph
Making a film on a mobile setEl Dorado Hills Telegraph, CA - 16 hours agoOne of the films called “The Final Stroke†was made by Adeya Rajan who said that the film he made was basically his view to look at poetry and paintings and ...
- 121-year link between Bolton and literature celebrated - Bolton News
121-year link between Bolton and literature celebratedBolton News, UK - 3 hours ago... his birthday with a walk on the Lancashire moors, modern fans reading his poetry, and passing round Whitman's loving cup brought back from America. ...
- A man of many parts - Alexander McCall Smith - Scotsman
A man of many parts - Alexander McCall SmithScotsman, United Kingdom - Jul 21, 2008Most writers, for example, haven't opened an opera house, much less one in the African bush. Yet last month McCall Smith did exactly that, just outside ...
- Unknown writer wins Libris Prize worth EUR 50000 07/05/2008 00:00 - Expatica Netherlands
Unknown writer wins Libris Prize worth EUR 50000 07/05/2008 00:00Expatica Netherlands, Netherlands - 44 minutes agoAlthough she won the prize as an outsider and this is only her third publication as a prose writer, she has written poetry all her life. ...
- Star unveils Dylan prize hopefuls (BBC News)
The long-list of of 14 books is announced by actor Michael Sheen for the £60,000 Dylan Thomas literary prize.
- Kicking a Dead Horse - Financial Times
Kicking a Dead HorseFinancial Times, UK - 10 hours agoThe time cantered along: Stephen Rea, as Struther, an art dealer lighting out for a desert landscape, makes Shepard's deadpan humour and existential poetry ...
- Collection of Bob Dylan’s artwork goes on show - Times Online
The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of art by Bob Dylan ever to have been assembled opens to the public today. Dylan has been passionate about art for more than four decades but The Drawn Blank Series at the Halcyon Gallery in London ...
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