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- General Reader Forums - Manhattan Mercury
Seeing how my post about the drinking age was recieved so well I thought I'd post another cocktail topic to kick off the weekend. There is a DUI Checklane this weekend. Now before ya'll get wound up about the cost of such a venture, these things are ...
- Syrian Kurdish poet among three arrested: rights group - AFP
Syrian Kurdish poet among three arrested: rights groupAFP - 17 hours agoThe National Organisation of Human Rights in Syria accused the authorities of "arbitrary arrests" and urged them to free Kurds Hozan Sheikh Mussa Mohammed ...
- About 250 authors slated for Decatur Book Festival - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
About 250 authors slated for Decatur Book FestivalColumbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - 5 hours agoSome first-time events include a Saturday morning fun run in Ansley Park with former Olympian Jeff Galloway and a teen poetry slam. A giant crossword puzzle ...
- Growing Pains - Forbes
A dark-haired teen named Elizabeth comes clean on MyYearbook.com about her obsession with self-mutilation. "One night in my room I found a pocket knife and started to cut my arm up," writes Elizabeth, whose profile says she is 14. Her 1,240-word ...
- Today in History, Aug. 4, 2008 - Waterbury Republican American
Today in History, Aug. 4, 2008Waterbury Republican American, CT - 10 minutes agoThought for Today: “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- Poet aided Obama's search for black identity in Hawaii - Los Angeles Daily News
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Journey to the heart of Islam - Kingston Daily Freeman
Journey to the heart of IslamKingston Daily Freeman, NY - 34 minutes agoWhere is the poetry? Where are the books to counteract some of this (violent) ideology?" A decade ago, Ahmed, a pulmonologist and sleep specialist, ...
- Thomas Brown: I Am The Greatest - Bleacher Report
Thomas Brown: I Am The GreatestBleacher Report, CA - 3 hours agoI resort to writing poetry and the tears that drown my sorrows of not being a top writer. If only one day I wish I could be on that list. ...
- At Tanglewood, a Composer Nears the Century Mark - New York Times
New York TimesAt Tanglewood, a Composer Nears the Century MarkNew York Times, United States - 3 hours ago... and guests have been up to the current international standard: they let listeners focus on the poetry in Mr. Carter’s music instead of its difficulty. ...
- Writers read passages about 'sex and private schools,' fear, depression (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
A small but appreciative crowd turned out Wednesday afternoon at the UConn Co-op to hear Lynn Z. Bloom and Margaret Gibson recall the pains and pleasures of girlhood. For Gibson, better known for her poetry (the latest volume of which, "One Body," recently took home the gold at the Connecticut Book Awards), tackling the memoir was an act of love.
- AbeBooks in sights of Amazon.com - Australian IT
AbeBooks in sights of Amazon.comAustralian IT, Australia - 25 minutes agoAbeBooks can steer you to pre-loved cookery books, history tomes, university textbooks, audiobooks, art books, poetry books - even technology books. ...
- Boy bands, Carrie Bradshaw, The Joker and, well, bees are generating big buzz this week (winnipegsun.com)
What's the only thing better than watching the second instalment of Christopher Nolan's Batman reboot on the big screen? How 'bout watching it on a REALLY big screen -- eight storeys high, in fact -- where six sequences filmed with IMAX cameras will showcase the Caped Crusader at his brooding best?
- Garden Art Museum to host children’s festival (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN,Oct. 6 (MNA) -- The Children, Friendship and Art Festival will be held at Tehran’s Garden Art Museum.
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - Times Daily
A poster of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, which is hang up over his effigy, is burned by lawyers during rally in Multan, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Musharraf said he was handing in his resignation to avoid an impeachment battle that ...
- Our Legacy: In celebration of the arts - HometownAnnapolis.com
"The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event." - Author Unknown ...
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