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- June 2008 - AccessAtlanta
Atlanta’s Theater of the Stars is about to have some disappointed tweens on its hands. The local Broadway producer has pulled the plug on the August engagement of the wildy popular stage version of “High School Musical.†However, the theater ...
- Joyce Carol Oates gets wild with her latest (Courier-Post)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. "My Sister, My Love," her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Clemente Honored Again, But Is He Among the Greatest Ever? - Bleacher Report
Bleacher ReportClemente Honored Again, But Is He Among the Greatest Ever?Bleacher Report, CA - 1 hour agoBut if you ask anyone that was fortunate enough to see Clemente play during his career as a Pittsburgh Pirate, they'll tell you Clemente was poetry in ...
- Civilian oversight part of King Co. police guild contract - Seattle Post Intelligencer
A first-ever comprehensive civilian review process is part of a tentative five-year contract agreement King County has reached with the King County Police Officers' Guild. The Guild entered into negotiations a year early in order to help speed up ...
- Above all, "Wire" is about transcendence (Denver Post)
The young man walks across a wire stretched between two platforms in a grassy field in France. A woman with dark hair rides his back.
- Woman physician shares journey into heart of Islam - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Dr. Qanta Ahmed's journey into the heart of Islam began as a spur-of-the-moment decision to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia. Despite misgivings about women - even doctors - being treated as invisible in the country, the 40-year ...
- Letters: Oxbridge admissions (Independent)
David Blunkett, discussing Oxbridge admissions (report, 21 July) falls into the same trap as most commentators in assuming that the problem of a high proportion of independent-school admissions to Oxbridge lies with the universities themselves.
- Lady Chatterley - Salon
Viewers will no doubt like and dislike Pascale Ferran's "Lady Chatterley" in ample numbers, but the picture itself is an impressive construction that seems indifferent to such concerns. Watching it is something like swimming in the ocean: You have an ...
- Recipe for a happy marriage - Telegraph.co.uk
Recipe for a happy marriageTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours ago... Thomas gave his whole life to poetry. Inevitably, there were those who suffered thereby. To judge from Byron Rogers's masterly "black comedy", ...
- Historical anti-slavery speech the subject of July 4th celebration (Oakland Tribune)
n Alternative celebration will set to music famed anti-slavery proclamation
- The Sword in the Stone - LubbockOnline.com
LubbockOnline.comThe Sword in the StoneLubbockOnline.com, TX - 2 hours agoA story about LA’s gangs, lead by a teen girl, taking on the LAPD sounds like something that’d have something to say about racial politics, cop culture, ...
- What's my age again? - Guardian Blogs
Lying about her age? ... Duffy's youth works in contrast to her vintage 60s sound. Photo: John Rahim/Rex Features Does pop music need to be made by young people? I'm asking because there's been an unpleasant undercurrent of ageism around two current ...
- Thursday Best Bets - MetroMix
Feeling strummy: The 20 hopefuls at this year’s U.S. Air Guitar Championships Regional Finals are poised to prove that you don’t need an actual instrument to rock out on stage. Last year’s regional winner, Nordic Thunder, competes again this ...
- Elderly poet is well-versed in humor (Leader-Telegram)
Norma Desprez doesn't hide her age. She embraces it. The 88-year-old Eau Claire grandmother writes about her golden years in the new poetry book "Silhouettes of Aging: An Octogenarian's Retort."
- Obituaries in the news - Philadelphia Inquirer
DALLAS (AP) , James A. Baker. a former Texas Supreme Court Justice known as a devoted scholar of appellate law, died Sunday. He was 77. He died in his sleep, the Texas Supreme Court said. Baker was diagnosed last year with cancer, which spread ...
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