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- Our democracy is only as good as we are (Creative Loafing Tampa)
By Peter Meinke "The medium is the message." --Marshall McLuhan (1964) Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) may be the wisest book ever written about the United States. In it he said that "America demonstrates invincibly one thing that I had doubted up to now, that the middle classes can govern a State. Despite their small passions, their incomplete education, their vulgar habits, ...
- Miss Strafford County finalists announced - Fosters Daily Democrat
DOVER Miss New Hampshire 2008 Natalie Shaw has been in Los Angeles, filming a reality series for TLC. Nine young women hoping to follow in her footsteps begin their quest for the Miss America crown competing for the titles of Miss Strafford County ...
- Dissident poet is allowed to speak, but Egypt's leaders aren't ... - Los Angeles Times
Iman Bakry says the Egyptian government’s tolerance of her poetry illustrates the beguiling power of a police state that creates the veneer of democracy by allowing a degree of freedom of expression. Iman Bakry has risen to national prominence with ...
- Black’s forays into Opik’s life - WalesOnline
Black’s forays into Opik’s lifeWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoBut that didn’t stop Patrick Jones e-mailing the poems to Christian and Muslim groups with the express intention of sparking “debateâ€. ...
- Chams resurrects the theatre Muson Centre - Daily Sun
Daily SunChams resurrects the theatre Muson CentreDaily Sun, Nigeria - 4 hours agoInterpersed with song and dance, poetry and proverbs, Adventures into the Forest is a masterful production that professional Thespians like Prof. ...
- Wanted: poet. Must not be shy, deviant or Pam Ayres - Guardian Unlimited
Sweating slightly under television lights, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Wendy Cope and Pam Ayres perform in turn a new sonnet while wearing T-shirts printed with the phone number we dial to vote for them. Raising with a flourish a card marked with ...
- 'Eagle Eye' soars to No. 1 at box office with $29M - MLive.com
Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures In this image released by Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks, Shia LaBeouf, left, and Michelle Monaghan star as two unsuspecting Americans drawn into a mysterious conspiracy in the race-against-time thriller "Eagle ...
- Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s.
- How I Met Your Mother: The Naked Man Cometh - BuddyTV
BuddyTVHow I Met Your Mother: The Naked Man ComethBuddyTV, WA - 2 hours agoGreat character moment – only Ted would allow poetry to override a whole night of awful-ness. Props must also be given to the most inspired scene of the ...
- Music review: Gabriela Montero's improvised classical - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
The Oregonian - OregonLive.comMusic review: Gabriela Montero's improvised classicalThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 1 hour ago... treated Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" theme as a Lisztian set of variations, and dressed up "Happy Birthday" with major-minor coloration in the manner of ...
- Boarding Gate - Salon
Michael Madsen and Asia Argento in "Boarding Gate." March 21, 2008 | In an early scene in Olivier Assayas' hypnotic, angular thriller "Boarding Gate," Asia Argento, as the ex-lover of Michael Madsen's international business tycoon, reflects on the ...
- Dog days for George Lopez - AZ Central.com
Dog days for George LopezAZ Central.com, AZ - 59 minutes agoAs Papi, Lopez croons romantic tunes and recites poetry. In real life, he only wishes he were as romantic. "I tend to say it with jewelry," Lopez says. ...
- More adopting children with Down syndrome (Pioneer Press)
WASHINGTON — Jonny and Madeleine, the eighth and ninth children in the Curtis family, were born 54 weeks apart but grew up in many ways like twins. Best friends from the beginning, they learned to walk and sound out words together. But Madeleine's development soon outpaced her older brother's.
- The Day of the Dead Dances Across Borders - Newspaper Tree
The Day of the Dead Dances Across BordersNewspaper Tree, TX - 2 hours agoIn addition to the large event at Centro Mayapan, El Pasoans celebrated the first weekend of November with Day of the Dead parties, poetry readings and, ...
- Photo by NyghtFalcon Photography - Winston-Salem Journal
Photo by NyghtFalcon PhotographyWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 1 hour agoOpen-mike poetry readings. Food available for purchase. Free. Call 336-771-7663. NOAH'S ARK CORN MAZE: 9:30 am until dusk Mondays through Saturdays through ...
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