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- Overreacting to a Computer Beating Poker Pros - New York Times Blogs
Newspapers trumpeted a landmark event last week: a computer program beating professional poker players head-to-head at Limit Hold-Em. Parallels have been drawn to Big Blue ’s victory over Gary Kasparov roughly a decade ago. Those parallels are not ...
- Flat-pack furniture and firecrackers - The Observer
Flat-pack furniture and firecrackersThe Observer, UK - 4 hours agoThe opening text is the first verse of 'Aristotle', by the American poet Billy Collins, describing the beginning of a relationship. 'This is the opening, ...
- Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformation - Toronto Star
Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformationToronto Star, Canada - 9 minutes agoElsewhere, rocks in a stream stand in contrast to the fleeting nature of human existence: As this passage shows, Donlan is adept at lyric poetry. ...
- China's 'ultimate place to relax' (BBC News)
As part of a series of features following the route of the Olympic torch around China, the BBC looks at the mountainous Huangshan.
- Out of Africa - guardian.co.uk
Out of Africaguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoAt first he is archly sceptical and teasing of Tiresias' passionate poetry and Parnassian recollections. Yet as time progresses and themes darken towards ...
- Festival flavours - Journal Live
Festival flavoursJournal Live, UK - 7 hours agoThe festival dovetails neatly with the Cumberland spirit of traditional music, cutting-edge poetry, energetic and foot-stamping dancing, plus everything ...
- Classic lit lights student minds - DesMoinesRegister.com
Classic lit lights student mindsDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 1 hour agoStudents slouching on couches and easy chairs in a room decorated with inspirational graffiti took turns reading author Jack London's slim literary classic ...
- Weekend Calendar | Events for June 28-29 - Seattle Times
Events for June 28-29 Family fun In the Good Old Summertime Sat Sack races, Dixieland band, vintage firetrucks and toy display, pie-eating... Sat Opening day of exhibit of 40 photos of polar bears in their natural habitat, with displays, programs ...
- Local & live (Billings Gazette)
Saturday, May 17, 2008 • RELAY FOR LIFE FUNDRAISERS: 8 a.m.-2 p.m., garage sale, 2832 Rehberg Lane. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., trunk sale, bake sale, barbecue, Mayflower Congregational Church, 2940 Poly Drive. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., bake sale, Shipton's Big R, 2600 Gabel Road. Book sale, trunk sale, carwash, Albertsons, 2334 Central Ave.
- Quartermaine's Terms: a potent blend of comedy and pain - Daily Telegraph
There is a scene in Simon Gray's fine play, first seen in 1981, in which the eponymous St John Quartermaine invites a succession of his colleagues at a Cambridge English language school to join him for a night at the theatre, only to be turned down ...
- Reviving the vanishing voice of verse - Cape Cod Times
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all ... this man, superb in love and logic, this man shall be remembered. There is no single "right" way to compose a poem, but here are tips from U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic: Don't tell the readers ...
- Culture With A Capital ‘C’ - Hamptons.com
Hamptons.comCulture With A Capital ‘C’Hamptons.com, NY - 1 hour agoNow for the literary crowd - in for the Writers Conference at Stonybrook Southampton – to plunk down their weighty tomes, volumes of poetry, and scripts in ...
- Celebrated Cape marching band performs at UMass (The Standard-Times)
DARTMOUTH — As part of its summer tour, the 100-member Orleans-based Spirit of America marching field band was at UMass Dartmouth Sunday night, where it presented its newest program called Exploration to an enthusiastic crowd under the lights at...
- You’re Gonna Love Me!: Pryslezz - Sixshot.com
Sixshot.comYou’re Gonna Love Me!: PryslezzSixshot.com, Switzerland - 6 hours agoI don’t know if me being an MC influences my poetry or vice versa. I can't really call it but it’s in there. You’re said to have a spiritual outlook on life ...
- LVC graduates commence next phase of lives - Daily News
ANNVILLE — The word “commencement” implies endings and beginnings. Yesterday’s commencement at Lebanon Valley College was both, as the 398 students who received degrees ended this phase of their lives and began another. Philip Billings sent ...
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