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- Mind your manners, T urges rude riders (Boston Globe)
For generations, it seemed, parents schooled their children in the basics of commuter courtesy, chiding sons and daughters to step aside and surrender seats for the elderly, the infirm, the pregnant. But simple gestures of kindness have mostly gone the way of the nickel fare. Commuters say it's more like bedlam below ground.
- Kittitas County teacher named state teacher of the year (Seattle Times)
Susan Johnson, a veteran language-arts teacher at Cle Elum-Roslyn High School in Kitsap County, was named Washington state's teacher of...
- Brian Hooks is sentenced to 30 years in prison for attack on homeless ... - Miami Herald
A third Broward teen involved in a brutal and fatal beating of a homeless man in 2006 was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday. Brian Hooks, 21, seemed resigned to his fate, knowing only a day earlier his best friend, Thomas Daugherty, was ...
- Annual contest offers Middle Eastern artists opportunity to draw ... - Lebanon Daily Star
BEIRUT: The second annual "Inspired by Diabetes" art contest was announced over the weekend the occasion of the fourth World Diabetes Day. The contest is described as a unique and creative way of drawing attention to diabetes, a global epidemic that ...
- 'Warhorses,' by Yusef Komunyakaa - San Francisco Gate
War is perhaps the great subject for poetry, and love is its nearly equal partner. Pulitzer winner Yusef Komunyakaa has written devastatingly about both, and he opens his 13th collection of poems with a sequence of sonnets called "Love in the Time of ...
- William Gibson dies at 94; Tony Award-winning playwright was best known for 'The Miracle Worker' (Los Angeles Times)
William Gibson, 94, a Tony Award-winning playwright best known for "The Miracle Worker," the inspirational story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, died Nov. 25 at his home in Stockbridge, Mass. The family did not disclose the cause of death.
- TV On The Radio Develops Right Formula (The Tampa Tribune)
Starkly ambitious and powerful, 2006's "Return to Cookie Mountain" was TV on the Radio's take-no-prisoners leap into the major leagues. It's doubtful the Brooklynites could match its bleak grandeur this soon after, and "Dear Science" doesn't try.
- «December Nights» at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts - The Moscow Times
«December Nights» at the Pushkin Museum of Fine ArtsThe Moscow Times, Russia - 20 hours agoSince 1998 the festival has been named “Cvyatoslav Richter’s December Nights”, and the art director after Richter’s death has been the eminent musician Yuri ...
- Why you can bet that a good read will be truly bad - Times Online
Why you can bet that a good read will be truly badTimes Online, UK - 3 hours agoEpic poetry can be racist, European novels sexist and sadistic. If it's politically correct, it's probably not great literature We were walking out of a ...
- How To Generate 3,000 Angry "Contributors" - Mediabistro.com
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- Icons: Phillipe Starck, The Big Bang - Blackbookmag.com
Having placed his signature touch on everything from the interiors of hotels like the Delano and the Mondrian to toothbrushes and motorcycles, Philippe Starck, France’s Zen master of the modern, diversifies into New York rental apartments ...
- Ayu Utami, Nirwan Dewanto win Khatulistiwa literary prize - Jakarta Post
Ayu Utami, Nirwan Dewanto win Khatulistiwa literary prizeJakarta Post, Indonesia - 2 hours agoThe winners in the prose and poetry categories each received Rp 100 million (US$8800) in cash, while the winner of the young talented writer category ...
- Henry Akubuiro: The Rancour Of A Racist-Editor - Modern Ghana
Henry Akubuiro: The Rancour Of A Racist-EditorModern Ghana, Ghana - 1 hour agoAnd this could be why the late Nigerian renowned poet, late Christopher Okigbo was irked in Darker when he won a poetry contest and was called a “black ...
- Interview with Rachel Zucker - The Southeast Review Online
Interview with Rachel ZuckerThe Southeast Review Online, Florida - 36 minutes agoBeing an animal also makes me want to give up poetry and reading and art. Being an animal makes me want to have more babies. Being an animal makes me want ...
- He's the Reeves who reads - National Post
He's the Reeves who readsNational Post, Canada - 4 hours agoLikewise, Allen Ginsberg, and his beatnik poetry gets a cool-cat call-out. Is it a pose? A pretence? Or did Keanu just get a really good education at North ...
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