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- Prose watch: Obama acceptance speech - Politico.com
As a record 38 million tuned in to watch Barack Obama accept his party’s nomination on Friday and 85,000 more saw the speech live from Invesco Field at Mile High, the nominee seemed determined to disprove Mario Cuomo’s adage that “You campaign ...
- School News & Notes - Falls Church News-Press
Fairfax County Public Schools will modify the admissions test for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology beginning with the December 2008 test session. The test is comprised of standardized mathematics and verbal reasoning questions ...
- Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection" - Reuters AlertNet
Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection"Reuters AlertNet, UK - 3 hours agoThere have also been quizzes, drawing and essay-writing competitions, tree planting, seminars, workshops, speeches, public awareness campaigns and poetry ...
- Juneteenth celebration - Quad-Cities Times
From 9-11 a.m.,Student Services office will host a Financial Literacy workshop with Wells Fargo Bank executive. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Shellie Moore Guy will present a variety of community performers who will sing, dance and recite poetry along with ...
- See it to be it: Hip-hop guru, speaker engages local children at ... - Greenville Daily Reflector
See it to be it: Hip-hop guru, speaker engages local children at ...Greenville Daily Reflector, NC - Aug 8, 2008By writing poetry and rap lyrics and performing them with personal conviction, he said. "Just as Motown and Do-Wop were the voice of other generations, ...
- DVD: Allen Ginsberg (RainbowNetwork.com)
Bohemian gay poets are hardly role models, or even superstars in this day and age. Yet, there was a time when they were amongst the few who dared to live their lives free of the closet, out in the public arena.
- A POW, A Man Of Faith - The Bulletin
This Friday, Aug. 22 marks the 55th anniversary of Drexel Hill's Capt. Joseph Kutys' return from service in the Korean War. Surviving a shot to his face, shrapnel to his legs and beatings as a prisoner of war, Mr. Kutys inspired his son, Msgr. Daniel ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - Las Vegas Sun
A Palestinian presidential aide says that renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died. Darwish died at a hospital in Houston following complications from an open heart surgery, according to Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian ...
- Composer saluted at Tanglewood - The Republican - MassLive.com
Composer saluted at TanglewoodThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 3 hours agoThe "Triple Duo" (1983) and "Penthode" (1985) sprung from the middle of the two-decade period of focus, and "Tempo e Tempi," a song cycle on Italian poetry ...
- Summer Travel Must-Do: Edinburgh Comedy Festival - Travel Connect
Summer Travel Must-Do: Edinburgh Comedy FestivalTravel Connect, UK - 22 hours ago... some of the most promising emerging and unknown talent from across the spectrum of sketch, improv, stand up, poetry, musical and comic theatre. ...
- Critic's Notebook: The failure of Ludacris' pro-Bama song was ... - Los Angeles Times Blogs
I highly recommend New York City blogger and radio dude Jay Smooth’s commentary on last week’s non-confrontation between Ludacris and Barack Obama. Jay’s view is that the incident -- which involved the rapper-actor offering up a pro-Bama song ...
- The McEwan Delusion: The Pseudo-Threat of Islamism - OpEdNews.com
As a novelist, Ian McEwan is talented to the point of self- caricature : he writes nothing that hasn't been dislocated on the rack of his talent. As the leader of today's "look-at-me-I'm-a-writer!" lolly-pop guild, he would never dream of a sentence ...
- Classic Film Review: 'The Human Condition' (The Epoch Times)
“The Human Condition" (Ningen no Joken), explores the moral and ethical dilemmas of life within authoritarian systems.
- Artist describes work as 'my life on canvas' - Roanoke Times
Gallery owner Beverly Bishop talks with customers and family members at the grand opening of her gallery, Studio 325, in Radford. The building started as a theater about 1915 and remained a performance space until about 1953, Bishop said. "Once I ...
- Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary programs - Georgetown Record
Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary programsGeorgetown Record, MA - 46 minutes agoEach session in this series includes a short hike and activities such as poetry, nature journals, songs, stories and crafts. Look for grasshoppers and ...
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