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- Kay Ryan named U.S. poet laureate - The Money Times
Washington -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09. Ryan, a 63-year-old California native, is to begin her duties in the fall, opening the library's annual ...
- A real Republican platform - WorldNetDaily
We recall the words of the old popular song, "What a Difference a Day Makes; 24 Little Hours." In this political year, it was actually 38 hours, but the poetry is the same. That's the time-spread between the locking up of the 2008 Republican platform ...
- Generations and Genres Mix at a Tap-Dance Party (New York Times)
Tap City 2008, a festival presented by the American Tap Dance Foundation, is a bit like a party where you don?t know a soul but the room is overflowing with communal love and gratitude.
- Fourth of July: Annual festival celebrates heritage (Sterling Journal-Advocate)
STERLING — For many Sterling residents, the Fourth of July holiday brings to mind picnics, fireworks, parades and, of course, the Heritage Festival at the Overland Trail Museum.
- Rule by law or dictatorship? - La Crosse Tribune
As America gets to celebrate another birthday, let us hope the rules we live by, lauded in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, are enforced and upheld. There is a great division happening now in America. There are those who believe the ...
- How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory (Medical News Today)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory. In several experiments, researchers R. Brooke Lea of Macalester College, David N.
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner - Times Online
Times OnlineThe Spare Room by Helen GarnerTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoAnd yet in a book this spare, written with such grace, Garner introduces in the interstices a calm, precise poetry: “The sky flushed and turned dusky. ...
- Defecting to and from Soviet Russia (World Tribune)
After WW2 and up to Stalin’s death, in 1953, and his posthumous “dethronement, Communists accounted for almost one-quarter of voters in France and one-third of voters in Italy. For the English-speaking countries, such percentages were fantastically high.
- All Events for 7 Sept 2008 (My Village Balham)
Until 11 Sep 2008 Lavish biopic about 18th century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. The Duchess is developing herself to be a significant political power-broker and soon becomes better...
- On 'Viva La Vida,' Coldplay's new sound leaves listeners adrift - Tampabay.com
On 'Viva La Vida,' Coldplay's new sound leaves listeners adriftTampabay.com, FL - 4 hours agoColdplay repeatedly settles for sonic stasis: swelling seas of piano and guitar, sensitive-boy poetry, we're-all-lonely-together crescendoes. ...
- Impact of books influences lives (Arizona Daily Star)
For some, it's the children's books that opened a young mind to a new idea; for others, it's the breakthrough book that put an adult life on a different path.
- Step Brothers (Rolling Stone)
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, ... Review: Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. They riffed on the baby Jesus in Talladega Nights. Now they're goofing on grown men who stay babies. Are you ready to see Ferrell rub his hairy nut sack on Reilly's drum ...
- Wow, what a story! - Winnipeg Sun
Wow, what a story!Winnipeg Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoLast May, Random House ponied up a $1.25-million advance for the US rights to the unorthodox gothic romance. Toss in other domestic and foreign rights and ...
- Encore Offers New Mini-Courses For Fall (The Chattanoogan)
Lee University's Encore program, which offers people 60 and over the opportunity to take university courses for credit for a $50 fee, will be offering eight new mini-courses designed specifically for program participants.
- Man with the Golden Tongue - New City Chicago
Man with the Golden TongueNew City Chicago, IL - 4 hours agoAlgren weaves verse and poetry into a narrative that whisks you joyfully through what could easily crumble into dry schoolbook style history. ...
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