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- Kennedy brings discretion to VP search (Independent Online)
Slain President John F Kennedy's daughter Caroline has joined Barack Obama's vice presidential search committee.
- The Real Lincoln Bedroom: Love in a Time of Strife (New York Times)
Daniel Mark Epstein?s careful parsing of the Lincoln marriage interweaves the crisis-filled, mercurial career of Abraham Lincoln with an equally rocky tale of man and wife.
- Short Stories (Colorado Springs Independent)
Gossip of the Starlings Nina de Gramont Algonquin Books, $22.95/hardcover The cover of Gossip of the Starlings quotes Jacquelyn Mitchard: "I inhaled this novel in one breath." Impressive words from an equally impressive writer. And in some ways, Nina de Gramont's debut novel is hard to put down.
- Three art forms at one place (The Hindu)
BANGALORE: Three forms — poetry, dance and music — come together on Friday evening when Natyalakshana presents The Fires Within at the Chowdiah Memorial Hall here, between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
- CD review: "Wild & Free," The Radiators - Stamford Advocate
CD review: "Wild & Free," The RadiatorsStamford Advocate, CT - 46 minutes agoThat considered, the 28-song "Wild & Free" does a decent job of showing why the group has been a favorite concert draw for decades and how it's followed its ...
- Jerome pilots Belfast Telegraph’s revamped website to new heights - Belfast Telegraph
Jerome pilots Belfast Telegraph’s revamped website to new heightsBelfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - 15 minutes agoAlthough the IT background has proved very beneficial — my ability to recite tracts of Golden Age Castillian poetry continues to be ignored by the brains ...
- 3 Famed Novelists Weave Exhilarating Tales - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 5, 2008 · Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring and each one asks the reader to take a leap of imagination. Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the last days of five authors; Jeanette Winterson takes ...
- A clear-eyed look (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Almost from the start, American literature has exhibited a prophetic streak. For Emerson, Thoreau and the other transcendentalists, literature was no mere entertainment, but a means of changing minds, hearts and behavior.
- An October Surprise: Some thoughts on robbing a bank and going to Iran ... - OpEdNews.com
Global Exchange is an American organization that sponsors friendship-engendering, people-to-people tours of some of the world's most controversial hot-spots -- places like Cuba, North Korea, Palestine and Afghanistan. And someday, when Iraq is ...
- IRAQ: A pilgrimage of hope - Los Angeles Times Blogs
It was the place where Iraq’s sectarian war began. This week, the city of Samarra and its ruined shrine once again became a place of peaceful pilgrimage for thousands of Shiite Muslims. A bombing on Feb. 22, 2006, destroyed Al Askari shrine’s ...
- America Back on Track... for Monday, June 23rd - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who said, "One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." Some observations on the news... We told you earlier about the McClatchy series last week on the detainees. In ...
- SPEED READ AUTHOR, AUTHOR - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
SPEED READ AUTHOR, AUTHORSanta Rosa Press Democrat, CA - 2 hours agoGerald Fleming reads poetry from "Sixteen Rivers" at 4 pm Four-eyed Frog Books, 39138 Ocean Drive, Gualala. 884-1333. Sylvia Brownrigg talks about "Morality ...
- Conflict diamonds - Nigel Osborne opera - Scotland on Sunday Online
With his new opera mining a rich seam of Bosnian music that ethnic cleansing could not destroy, Nigel Osborne tells Sarah Urwin Jones about falling in love with Sevdah LOVE, war and betrayal may be the stock in trade of the operatic repertoire, but ...
- Dissecting Nas’ Untitled - Part 1 - Popmatters.com
The PopMatters writers guide recommends that record reviews run somewhere between 500 and 700 words. Sometimes I struggle to get 500 words out of an album and sometimes I have a hard time keeping the count under 700. This isn’t necessarily the ...
- Beatles producer George Martin to host PBS `On the Record' documentary ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- There have been rumors for a couple of years that George Martin, legendary producer of the Beatles, would be a mentor on Fox's "American Idol.'' The rumors were shot down by Martin, sometimes called "the fifth Beatle.'' at a ...
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