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- The language wars - Indian Express
The language warsIndian Express, India - 13 hours agoIndeed, no other language lends itself as beautifully to poetry as does Urdu, while Sanskrit’s reputation as a powerful medium of communicating matters of ...
- Rev. David Scholer, advocate for women in the ministry - Boston Globe
LOS ANGELES - The Rev. David M. Scholer, a popular Fuller Theological Seminary professor and an articulate advocate for women in the ministry who inspired others by showing them how to live with incurable cancer, died Friday at his Pasadena home. He ...
- China has must-win attitude in table tennis - Memphis Commercial Appeal
China has must-win attitude in table tennisMemphis Commercial Appeal, TN - 6 hours agoNow some poetry from the late Chairman Mao: "Regard a pingpong ball as the head of your capitalist enemy. Hit it with your socialist bat and you have won ...
- Killing the Buddha - Just Out
Killing the BuddhaJust Out, OR - 2 hours agoCover to Cover Books presents Open Mic Poetry hosted by Christopher Luna and featuring Nancy J. Thompson 7 pm today at 1817 Main St. in Vancouver, Wash. ...
- Fair is 99 times better than the first time - Prince Albert Daily Herald
Fair is 99 times better than the first timePrince Albert Daily Herald, Canada - 15 minutes agoBlair calls him a walking encyclopedia, saying Smith has a powerful memory of the poetry of Robert W. Service and many other poets. ...
- Pakistan’s very own Haiku expert - Pakistan Daily
Pakistan’s very own Haiku expertPakistan Daily, Pakistan - 57 minutes ago‘Mujh ko Tanha Na kar’ was the real start of his poetry, published in monthly Takleequ, Lahore, after several years. He has been extremely humble about his ...
- Lansdown Poetry Night Special - Metro
MetroLansdown Poetry Night SpecialMetro, UK - 1 hour agoby DAVID TRIGG - Monday, September 8, 2008 Poetry fans are in for a real treat tonight as Aeronwy Thomas pays a special visit to the Bristol Poetry Festival ...
- I'll take (a) Manhattan (The Standard-Times)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
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- What drives you??? (Dexter Daily Statesman)
Hello guys and gals! Hope everyone is faring well in these dog days of summer! Just thought I'd post in and catch up with my friends in the blogosphere. Been missin' you all!!
- ACT and Intiman get new CEOs to guide them through a rough economy - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"This is amazing theater," he recalls thinking. The Geneva conservatory-trained artist responded to the thrashing energy on the stage as a piece of drama. It took little time after that for him to veer from performing and into production, launching ...
- Learning to Live - Gather.com
This week I finished a book by Paulo Coelho called Veronika Decides to Die . In the book Veronika is not exactly in despair as she takes what she believes will be a fatal dose of sleeping pills. In fact her life is everything it is supposed to be ...
- Andrew Gallix: The new wave of French urban fiction (Guardian Unlimited)
The torrent of urban writing from the banlieues is finally making an impact on the French literary establishment, but may be too challenging for this side of the Channel
- New Willow Glen library twice as big as old (San Jose Mercury News)
Michael Nacey didn't care a whit about the $8.8 million in renovations, the 54 hand-cast panes of borosilicate art glass, the architectural aesthetic nodding to the surrounding residential neighborhood or the latest information science used to create Willow Glen's newly renovated library.
- Ha Jin wants to visit China - FOX News
HONG KONG — On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The ...
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