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- Playwright Harold Pinter buried in London (The Charlotte Observer)
(By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Writer) Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter was buried at a London cemetery Wednesday in a small private funeral attended by family and close friends. Poems and excerpts from his plays were read at the 15-minute ceremony, which followed his death Christmas Eve after a long struggle with cancer. Some 50 people, including luminaries from Britain's ...
- 'Scrooge,' Celtic Christmas at HD - Bennington Banner
'Scrooge,' Celtic Christmas at HDBennington Banner, VT - 7 hours agoIn A Celtic Christmas: An Evening of Celtic Music, Poetry and Story-telling to celebrate the Season, musicians Dan Houghton and Iain MacHarg, singer Julie ...
- Our Opinion: Is there a Santa Claus? - State Journal-Register
Editor’s note: The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in The New York Sun in 1897 and remains appropriate for this holiday season more than 100 years later. WE TAKE pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently ...
- Gang of writers: How a teen paper documented life in the 'hood - Philadelphia Daily News
A WEEK after I began organizing Dig This, a teenage newspaper in Francisville, a social worker tipped me off: "Oh, you're working with the Morroccos gang." I blanched. By May 1968, the Morroccos had killed three people. They were one of the most ...
- Festival is the year's biggest event for the area art scene - Pensacola News Journal
Festival is the year's biggest event for the area art scenePensacola News Journal, FL - 4 hours agoMarquez plays guitar, organ, writes poetry and paints smoky, illuminated images of city streets and dramatic figures. The juried artists vie for $25000 in ...
- The Contender (Independent)
the young senator who, even then, was regarded by many as a president-in-waiting. It wasn't very long ago when most Americans had never heard the name Barack Obama, the newbie US senator from Illinois. Even now they get it wrong to his face. Senator Barama. Senator Alabama. Senator Banana.
- ‘Why would I go?’ - Remembering poet Shakti Chattopadhyay on his 75th anniversary (The Telegraph)
If Hamlet’s great soliloquy “ To be or not to be †is a watershed in the history of English literature, then Shakti Chattopadhyay’s “ Jete pari kintu keno jabo †(I could go away, but why would I) remains one of the most enduringly mysterious monologues in Bengali poetry.
- Meet the 2008 REV homecoming court (Redlands Daily Facts)
Dominic Paramo, Homecoming King Dominic said he was surprised when he found out he was named Homecoming king. He enjoys writing poetry, short stories, screenplays and lyrics for songs. He is involved with the REV track and cross country teams, REV Week and the theater program.
- This beer is for the dogs, just in time for happy hour - MLive.com
Thirteen-year-old Maggie, an English mastiff, is the face of Bowser Beer. (Click to enlarge.) THE DOG HOUSE - Beer has come to the dogs. Bowser beer, a non-carbonated, non-alcoholic beer for dogs (hops can cause seizures in dogs and the alcohol can ...
- Washington and Lee editor wins Virginia poetry book of the year - WSLS.com
Washington and Lee editor wins Virginia poetry book of the yearWSLS.com, VA - Oct 20, 2008So in Outlaw Style, although Booth is an important figure, each of the poems is centered around someone who knew him and whose life his actions damaged. ...
- Intellectuals and artists from our country paid tribute, in Habana ... - Cuba Headlines
Cuba HeadlinesIntellectuals and artists from our country paid tribute, in Habana ...Cuba Headlines, Cuba - 3 hours agoEmilio Ballagas (1908-1954), who enters great Cuban poetry with the poem book Júbilo y fuga in 1931, also wrote ElegÃÂa sin nombre, Nuestra señora del mar ...
- Music of the spoken word - Hindu
HinduMusic of the spoken wordHindu, India - 2 hours agoThis poet and Hindustani musician from Mumbai was one of the 25 poets who participated in the recent Prakriti Poetry Festival in Chennai. ...
- Justice makes case for commutations - Detroit Free Press
With nearly 50,000 inmates and one of the nation's highest incarceration rates, Michigan's 41 prisons hold hundreds of people who could be safely released. Justice and a state budget crisis require Gov. Jennifer Granholm to commute the sentences of ...
- WEEKEND COLUMNISTS Mrs Moneypenny - Financial Times
WEEKEND COLUMNISTS Mrs MoneypennyFinancial Times, UK - 33 minutes agoIt was a love poem, and just to make sure that the object of his affections didn’t miss it, he had it published in a magazine. Not just any magazine, ...
- 'I take a story and make it my own' - Times of India
'I take a story and make it my own'Times of India, India - 4 hours ago... to a Sikh family. Though educated partly in the UK, she grew up reading Punjabi from the verses of Guru Granth Sahib and enjoying Sufiana poetry. ...
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