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- Jeff Douthwaite, former legislator and UW professor, dies at 79 - Seattle Times
Geoffrey K. Douthwaite was a voracious reader who loved maritime stories and the poetry of Robert Service. The former Democratic lawmaker could recite "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" — a narrative poem set in the Yukon Gold Rush that was a personal ...
- John Lichfield: Racy goings-on in la France profonde - Independent
John Lichfield: Racy goings-on in la France profondeIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoWas this part of some kind of poetry-by-the-lineside venture by the SNCF? Apparently not. It was simply the work of an individual, or a group of people, ...
- Nepal: Rapping Out An Oath - NewsBlaze
Nepal: Rapping Out An OathNewsBlaze, CA - 14 minutes agoThe language pulsates with Egyptian fiction, Iraqi prose and Lebanese poetry. But Nepali was a curse that had to be exorcised. ...
- Four renown poets to read at event honoring Jeffers - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Four noted poets will read during an upcoming UC Santa Cruz and Poetry Santa Cruz celebration of Robinson Jeffers, an environmentalist poet whose once-unpopular political views of people's egotism have regained a large following. Poets Li-Young Lee ...
- The race to be the fourth party matters more than you think (Guardian Unlimited)
Comment is free: Rafael Behr: They're not set to conquer Westminster, but the Greens versus BNP is of great significance
- With Help From Sympathetic Officials - Wall Street Journal
With Help From Sympathetic OfficialsWall Street Journal - 55 minutes agoAll through these years, he was also writing poetry, which he has described in interviews as his first love. Mr. Seth's first novel, "The Golden Gate," ...
- Education Calendar: 10/07/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
The Education calendar is published weekly. To submit information email awidmer@record-eagle.com ; fax (231) 946-8632; or mail to 120 W. Front St., P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632. Items should be received at least two weeks in advance.
- London News and Reviews (Evening Standard)
Any parent will recognise Peter Smith's assessment of the boys he teaches at Hampton School in south-west London: 'Boys are like greyhounds. They love the chase and the race, and they don't care if the prize is a fake rabbit.'
- Nice Office Mad Men returns for a second season. - Slate
Mad Men (AMC, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) is not just about marketing, it's also a triumph of it. You can set the matter of the show's near-excellence—its patient pacing and self-possessed performances, its yards of assertive style—on the Saarinen ...
- Street festival celebrates workers' rights - Rocky Mount Telegram
Rocky Mount TelegramStreet festival celebrates workers' rightsRocky Mount Telegram, NC - 3 hours agoThe daylong event featured musical entertainment, poetry readings, a free legal clinic, children’s activities and free health screenings. ...
- Things to do: Coming Soon (Las Cruces Sun-News)
• "An Evening of Art" featuring renowned American Indian artist Amado Peña Jr., and showcasing local artists, begins at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. The event is part of Doña Ana Community College's 35th Anniversary Celebration.
- Sunday's child - Idaho Statesman - IdahoStatesman.com
Sunday's child - Idaho StatesmanIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 2 hours agoI think it would be cool to be in a family that has a couple of other kids. I like to read and I also write songs and poetry. I'm a pretty good artist, ...
- What's cooking? 7 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST,TNN (The Times of India)
Relationships, especially marriages, are supposed to last a lifetime. And while most people are shocked to find out that their partner is very much in love... with someone else, there are tell-tale signs in most cases of infedility. It’s just that you don’t see them or rather, ignore them.
- Pal power (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Sometimes, with all the pointless competition, feuding and lack of cooperation, the "New Orleans theater community" doesn't seem to exist. But for singer-actress Lisa Picone, it came through big-time.
- Brooklyn Book Festival - Columbia Spectator
Jonathan Lethem is to Brooklyn as Woody Allen is to Manhattan, as evidenced by his prose and his presence on the podium this weekend at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn , Fortress of Solitude , You Don’t Love ...
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