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- Afrikaans writer dies - Daily News
Award-winning Afrikaans poet and author George Weideman has died, the SABC reported on Thursday. The 61-year-old, who was the first recipient of the Sanlam prize for Afrikaans theatre in July 2004, died of leukaemia. He had published more than 15 ...
- A Scandal for Denver? - Slate
We're Taking This Thing All the Way to Denver! Former DNC chief Don Fowler delivers the Democratic grown-ups' message, on the record, as reported in the Charlotte Observer -- If Edwards fails to clear up the story in short order, he risks party ...
- Breaking: The War on Drugs - Rolling Stone
Breaking: The War on DrugsRolling Stone - 49 minutes agoGranduciel honed his writing chops when he and a pal started writing their own dictionary, which featured bits of poetry alongside more traditional ...
- Technically Incorrect - CNET News
So has everyone been wandering around your office, puffing out their hairless chests and declaring "I'm a PC" with pride? Thought not. Visible Measures , a company that measures viral-video activity, announced this week that the Gates-Seinfeld ads ...
- Obama fires up old magic (Arab News)
WASHINGTON: Sen. Barack Obama stormed into the backstretch of his historic race for the White House on Thursday, painting a sweeping vision of his confidence in America’s promise and reinforcing it with details of how he would restore America’s image overseas and the economy at home.
- Cowboy poets and crooners roping in fans - Edmonton Journal
Cowboy poets and crooners roping in fansEdmonton Journal, Canada - 37 minutes ago"I remember hearing songs like Diamond Joe as a kid and we didn't live far from Knott's Berry Farm where we'd see acts like the Sons of the Pioneers in ...
- Bernard Haykel: Osama bin Laden gets poetic to draw in the faithful (Guardian Unlimited)
Bernard Haykel: In the battle to win Muslim hearts and minds al Qaida's leader is turning to poetry
- CHILE: Exhibit to Celebrate Indigenous Art - IPS
CHILE: Exhibit to Celebrate Indigenous ArtIPS, Italy - 2 hours agoThe exhibit encompasses the visual arts, both traditional and modern, as well as scenic arts, audiovisual arts and writing, especially short stories, poetry ...
- Solzhenitsyn: A tortured patriot (BBC News)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn tackled the big themes of Russian literature, writes Oxford lecturer Michael Nicholson.
- Playwrights discuss Thornton Wilder's underappreciated genius - The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Playwrights discuss Thornton Wilder's underappreciated geniusThe Times of Trenton - NJ.com, NJ - 52 minutes agoI think he was trying to save poetry from me," Albee said, drawing laughter from the audience of Wilder scholars and enthusiasts, which included members of ...
- Radcliffe keen for drag queen role - Epping Forest Guardian
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe lost his virginity to an older woman and the age difference would "freak some people out", according to US reports. But the 19-year-old actor, who is about to appear on stage in Broadway, New York, said the age ...
- Join the crowd: Why do multinationals use amateurs to solve scientific ... - The Independent
Design by democracy, as it happens, isn't bad for the bottom line. Threadless generated $17m in revenues in 2006 (the last year for which it has released sales figures) and by all accounts has continued its rapid rate of growth. The Jakes didn't set ...
- Poetry! Comedy! Waffles! - Free Times
Free TimesPoetry! Comedy! Waffles!Free Times, SC - 56 minutes agoWe know the summertime is usually musical death here in Columbia, but have you checked out the musical goings-on today? Leon Russell at Sterling Hall? ...
- Library celebrates freedom of speech - Newport News-Times
Banned books with excerpts from readers. Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager forced into hiding during the Holocaust, spent 25 months during World War II secreted away above an Amsterdam office. When she, and others hiding with her, were betrayed to the ...
- COVER- 'Uncle and maestro': Remembering George Garrett - The Hook
The HookCOVER- 'Uncle and maestro': Remembering George GarrettThe Hook, VA - 22 minutes ago... experimental fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, shorts stories-- while remaining, as writer and friend Richard Bausch put it, ...
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