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- Scott champion heads to national spelling bee (Knoxville News Sentinel)
WASHINGTON - Lillie Young figured out pretty early that she had a talent for spelling difficult words when she entered a classroom spelling bee in the first grade and won.
- Program director knows immigrant experience (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Miguel-Angel Soria sneaked across the border from Mexico at age 12 with his family. After a rocky start in his new surroundings, he eventually attended community college, then the University of San Diego, and received his master's degree in counseling and his teaching credentials from San Diego State.
- Mujtahedi – Dr. Johnson of Urdu - Saudi Gazette
URDU was once the most important and widely used language of India. But with the 1947 partition, it fell upon lean days, and the decline has continued primarily because it has come to be associated with a particular community. Urdu is a rich language ...
- Winners Announced for First-Ever AFL-CIO Online Video Competition - CNBC
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Videos take creative, edgy look at what's wrong with America and suggestions for change www.turnaroundvideocontest.com Today, the AFL-CIO announced the winners of the "Turn Around ...
- Quebec: A Canadian Occasion - TIME
Quebec: A Canadian OccasionTIME - 2 hours agoIf you come for the birthday party, stay for the city's charms. Within Old Quebec — a UNESCO World Heritage Site inside the walls of the city's old ...
- Grieving Vanessa is bleakly beautiful - Daily Mail
Daily MailGrieving Vanessa is bleakly beautifulDaily Mail, UK - 2 hours agoThere is poetry in all this hollow despair, but it might be better suited to a radio play than to an evening at the National.
- Book Review: "Another World Instead" - Oregonian
In the nearly 15 years since the death of beloved poet William Stafford , his reputation has only grown. Author of 67 books, a former Oregon poet laureate and poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and the winner of a National Book Award ...
- Bobby recalled (BBC News)
The life of Robert Kennedy, 40 years on
- Sixth-graders paint roses red at reading - Record-Courier
Meneley Elementary School student Angela Solano claps for a classmate during the poetry reading at Pony Espresso on May 9. The walls shook with the thunder of poet-warriors. Mere sixth-graders were transformed into living gods as with the tongues of ...
- 'An incredible presence in American literature' - Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Saturday will mark the fourth time the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters has honored author Ellen Douglas. This time, it's a crowning touch - Lifetime Achievement for the writer who spent her lifetime in her home state, mining its people and ...
- Prodigy at 20, Dead at 31, Kapell's Genius Survives on New Set - Bloomberg
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- By 1953, 31-year-old William Kapell owned the world. A pianist of prodigious gifts in both fingers and brain power, handsome and happily married, his fame seemed without limit. That year he had added Australia to his realm ...
- Salman Rushdie: Knight of the Tall Tale - New York Sun
'The Enchantress of Florence" (Random House, 368 pages, $26) is a "Harry Potter"-ish restoration project of great intelligence and remarkable egoism, both of which are characteristic of its author. Although he sets his novel in the Florence of the ...
- Summer reading program - Bradenton Herald
Summer reading programBradenton Herald, United States - 5 hours agoStories read aloud are complemented by audience participation, creative dramatics, poetry, puppetry, songs and music, jokes and riddles, games or crafts, ...
- Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book Award (CBC)
Barbara Gowdy is one of the newest winners of Ontario's Trillium Book Awards, announced at a midday ceremony in Toronto Thursday.
- Barbara Fischkin: Hillary Said the Word -- An Autism Mom Finally Feels Acknowledged (HuffingtonPost)
I have a 20 year-old son with autism, and when Hillary Clinton mentioned the disease, I cried.
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