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- Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens dies - WIS
Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens diesWIS, SC - 3 hours agoThe Virginia native's first poetry book was published in 1993. Nickens may be best known for her book "Freedom's Child," which told the story of her ...
- Hey, big spender, flying my way? (International Herald Tribune)
The new hitchhikers want to charm their way onto your private jet.
- Kids will love these two wonderful stories - and so will you (Concord Monitor)
One day, as Kathy Brodsky walked her dog along a familiar route, she noticed a crooked pine tree. And it got her thinking.
- North Ridgeville's Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-in celebrates an American ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Plain Dealer file The Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-in Theaters -- which celebrates the 75th anniversary of the drive-in Friday -- is so much a part of Americana that it plays the Star-Spangled Banner at the beginning of every night. In 1932, Richard M ...
- That Stegner Fellow - New York Times
If you were choosing an all-star team of 20th-century American writers to represent the liberal mind — construed expansively, not in narrowly political terms — you might have Lionel Trilling batting cleanup, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. hitting eighth ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By GLEN JOHNSON Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure to be one of the most closely watched endeavors of this year's presidential campaign. The daughter of President Kennedy has sought and ...
- Boozer Gets Grounded at O'Hare, Curses American Airlines: Books - Bloomberg
July 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bennie Ford is a failed poet, a failed father and a successful boozer. You wouldn't want to be stranded with him at an airport, though that's essentially what happens in Jonathan Miles's canny debut novel, ``Dear American ...
- The Great Exhibition and London's Chinese Junk - BBC News
BBC NewsThe Great Exhibition and London's Chinese JunkBBC News, UK - 8 hours agoThey take a child, two or three years old, put him in a porcelain vase, more or less grotesque, which is made without top or bottom, to allow egress for the ...
- Poetic punishment is just for teen vandals - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Here's some poetic justice: Recently 25 teens in Ripton, Vt. -- who had desecrated the hallowed ground of Robert Frost's summer home in the nearby woods last December -- were sentenced to hard poetry by a frosted judge. Their punishment took the form ...
- art Till June 20 at Angan Art Gallery, 11 Fern Place, #2461 8899; 3 pm - 8 pm: (The Telegraph)
Udvid presents its first annual exhibition featuring works by Pranamita Das, Dipankar Bhawal, Shalini Chanda and Amit Mukhopadhyay. Till June 21 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by M. Narayanan Namboodiri.
- Potty patrol: We review the best restrooms on the Cleveland nightlife scene (The Plain Dealer)
Guys don't care. The bar is low when it comes to what they find acceptable in bathroom accommodations. There's nothing a guy likes better than avoiding using a toilet at all. Hydrating a brick wall behind the bar is fun. Making a puddle in a parking lot is cool.
- Vintage Talk From the Stump - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalVintage Talk From the StumpWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoCampaign rhetoric in its more memorable forms, as Mario Cuomo once noted, is more poetry than prose, aiming at the heart instead of the head. ...
- Sun Spa Resorts Announces First Sleep Spa Concept in the Maldives - Newswiretoday.com
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Male', North Male' Atoll, Maldives, 07/23/2008 - Sun Spa at IruFushi Beach & Spa Resort, due to open in summer 2008, will launch the first Sleep Spa concept in the Maldives -entitled Sweet Dreams. The programme's main ...
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- Parting Glances: Self meets self at 6 - Pride Source
It's been over 50 years since I last saw the young man who now sits across from me. He has at 19 what a friend calls "the poetry of youth" - an eager freshness that's a joy at my age to see. He hasn't changed much. (Still thin as a rail. Tall as ever ...
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