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- Honor America Days events - Romesentinel.com
Honor America Days with special sales throughout Rome. Visit www.ShopRomeFirst.com or call 337-1700. Today, July 29: • 2:30 p.m., Family Film Festival at Jervis Public Library, 613 N. Washington St. Popcorn and movie for all ages. Information 336 ...
- Sunil Dutta First Indian-American to Become LAPD Lieutenant - India Journal
India JournalSunil Dutta First Indian-American to Become LAPD LieutenantIndia Journal, CA - 37 minutes agoDutta is a published author, having published a translation of Mirza Ghalib’s poetry with Robert Bly and several articles and editorials in magazines, ...
- It's the water... - Spokane Spokesman-Review
In spring, where April showers bring mold, shoe-sucking mud, and batallions of slugs, we often wonder how the state's founders settled on this mossy burg for their capital. Here's the answer, according to the archivists of the Secretary of State's ...
- Greek court allows "lesbians" - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, July 24 -- A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- Day one scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
Nearly two-thirds of the 76 teams in the National Poetry Slam competed in their first bouts on Tuesday night at multiple venues throughout downtown Madison. The bout winners on Tuesday were Boston Cantab, SlamCharlotte, Austin Poetry Slam, NoCoast Writers Collective from Lincoln, Hayti Heritage Center from Durham, The City Slam from San Francisco, Chicago Mental Graffiti, New York Urbana Poetry ...
- LETTER: Poetry and the possible - Wicked Local Gloucester
LETTER: Poetry and the possibleWicked Local Gloucester, MA - 3 hours agoThe Parker and Kingman awards already honor students for grades and good prose; there is no poetry award, though past Poetry Without Paper contests, ...
- In the news - Daily Press
In the newsDaily Press, VA - 3 hours ago•Local author Ashlee Paxton-Turner recently donated a copy of her poetry collection "Into the Night: Poems for the Traveler by Star Light" to the ...
- Send to Friend (Cape May County Herald)
The Cape May County Library is looking for new participants for the Great Books Reading and Discussion Group. Great Books has been meeting at the Main Library for more than 15 years.
- My sympathies lie with proud, sunny Georgians - Independent
I spent a brief period in Georgia in the 1980s -- before the Soviet Union collapsed, but when it was very obviously in decline -- and thought it a most delightful country. It was Italy on the Caucasus, and the Georgians seemed like the Italians of ...
- Doing Justice to the Arts - Christian News Wire (press release)
Doing Justice to the ArtsChristian News Wire (press release), DC - 28 minutes agoDuring his teen years, it was music. As a college undergrad, he began writing poetry. But during his careers as Infantry officer, Army aviator, ...
- A Colonial Oasis in Upper Manhattan - New York Sun
A Colonial Oasis in Upper ManhattanNew York Sun, United States - 1 hour agoThe floor features an office and a family room. In keeping with the style of the home, Mrs. Martinez-Desir installed colorful Shaker-style stained glass, ...
- Student Certain Of Calling In Uncertain Times - News Net Nebraska
Student Certain Of Calling In Uncertain TimesNews Net Nebraska, NE - 11 hours agoAs I sat on the subway, exhausted but smiling, I got into a conversation with Bryan Marquard, an obituary writer who creates poetry with every keystroke. ...
- Jeremy Paxman ridicules Robert Burns as king - Times Online
Times OnlineJeremy Paxman ridicules Robert Burns as kingTimes Online, UK - 20 hours ago... explosive vernacular and insipid English, vigorous bawdry and pietistic moralising, who was prevented from writing sustained poetry of the very highest ...
- The women he left behind - Haaretz.com
On the door of the house in the village of Makhoul - also known as Peki'in West - there could easily have been hung a sign saying "Here live Mathal, Munib and Jamila Makhoul in happiness." Except that Munib is dead and buried in the yard of the house ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers (San Francisco Chronicle)
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of the next...
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