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- Massive Laughs, Tiny Tent - This is London
Massive Laughs, Tiny TentThis is London, UK - 5 hours agoOn the positive side, Latitude's poetry tent was a great place to dip into. One could usually get inside and poetry lends itself to quick bites between ...
- Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of the gulag, dies (Boston Globe)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist whose unyielding opposition to Soviet dictatorship made him one of the heroic figures of the 20th century, died late yesterday outside his home in Moscow. The cause of death was heart failure, his son, Stepan , told the Associated Press. He was 89.
- Diane Sawyer - News Busters
One of the favors the media routinely perform for liberal politicians is citing left-of-center think tanks as "non-partisan" entities, who just happen to have evidence proving the awfulness of conservative policies. A classic example occurred on the ...
- True spirit of Oktoberfest - La Crosse Tribune
Oktoberfest 2008 is now history. La Crosse was filled with happy festers, bringing thousands of dollars to boost our economy. Button and beer sales will enable La Crosse Festivals to bring you another great fest in 2009; while beer and buttons are ...
- Offer us Brits sympathy? It's just asking for trouble - Guardian Unlimited
Sports do not build character, the great American journalist Heywood Broun once said. They reveal it. And who could fail to agree this week, surveying the reactions to both London's part in the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony, and a Manchester ...
- Of baseball and heartbreak - Las Vegas Sun
Summer road trips mean searching unfamiliar radio stations, hoping to find baseball amid the hip-hop and country that crowd the airwaves. You dial in that telltale dead air and wait ... Maybe you’ll strike gold with the voice of Vin Scully or Jon ...
- Bee Wilson: plums - Daily Telegraph
Pershore Yellow Egg; Blue Violet; Aylesbury Prune; Cambridge Gage. There is poetry in plums. Indeed, they are the subject of the best short poem in English, by William Carlos Williams, entitled 'This is Just to Say'. It goes: 'I have eaten/the plums ...
- Gervase Phinn: What pupils can teach us... - yorkshirepost
Last week, I received a letter from Ben, telling me how he had done in his GCSEs. It came as no surprise to me that he had achieved all top grades. Ben has been writing to me on and off since I met him in a primary school where I was undertaking a ...
- Bernardine Evaristo - Guardian Unlimited
Bernardine Evaristo: 'Writing? I just fell into it' What was your favourite book as a child and why? I have almost no memory of books before my teenage years. Isn't that strange? I think it's because all my books came from the library so there was no ...
- St. Benedict Maintenance Worker Honored For Poetry (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
Larry Schug always has something to write about.
- Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st century (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Nothing says love, or goodbye, like custom-blended tunes, and it's easier than ever to assemble the perfect compilation.
- It's Happening - Scarborough (North York Mirror)
SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING, Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church, 31 Wood Glen Rd., children six to 12 years: 7 to 8 p.m., adults: 8 to 10 p.m. Beginners Welcome. No partner necessary. Call Betty Baker at 416-286-9755.
- A life less precarious for Beverly Hills homeless (The New Zealand Herald)
BEVERLY HILLS - Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places.
- The world's 50 best walks - Times Online
Times OnlineThe world's 50 best walksTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoNo city is as rich in pubs and poetry as Dublin, and Colm Quilligan’s literary pub crawl is a genius amalgam of both - a 2½hour stagger with Wilde, Joyce, ...
- writers GROUP MEETS (The Bolingbrook Sun)
The Naperville Writers Group will host author and poet Marilyn Huntman Giese, the author of "When the World Changed, A Revolutionary Peace," at 7 p.m. Sept. 26. The book, based on her travels to the Near and Middle East, is an interplay of vivid photos and scriptural references that tell the story of Jesus in a unique way. Giese's poetry ranges from lighthearted spoofs to serious social issues.
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