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- 'Jurassic Park' author Michael Crichton dies at 66 - MLive.com
LOS ANGELES  Best-selling author and filmmaker Michael Crichton, best known for writing "Jurassic Park" and creating TV's "ER," died today at 66. "While the world knew him as a great story teller that challenged our preconceived notions about the ...
- Maya Angelou sees poetry in Obama (Chicago Tribune)
Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clintonâ€â€affectionately referred to as the nation's first black presidentâ€â€asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama 's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- Recalling Solzhenitsyn, the genius of socialist realism (International Herald Tribune)
What seems to have gotten lost in all the tributes to Alexander Solzhenitsyn is the reason he was listened to in the first place - namely, his virtues as a writer.
- Discover the Granite State's secrets - Nashua Telegraph
Discover the Granite State's secretsNashua Telegraph, NH - 4 hours agoComments from unverified accounts will be reviewed twice daily. Details here. Please verify your email address to allow immediate posting of comments.
- WeVote brings some life to the parties (USM Free Press)
Thursday's "Life of the Party" political forum was formulated as a break from the candidate-driven, partisan forums broadcast over the last year, where answers and platforms are so routine and regimented, a voter could slip into election-induced déjàvu. As soon as the slam-poetry styling of the Freedom Choir began to echo their rendition of "The Times They Are A-Changin'" from the back of the ...
- Dispatches From the Front - The GC Advocate
Dispatches From the FrontThe GC Advocate, NY - 10 hours agoPerhaps this resistance is natural for some people; as Frank O’Hara says of poetry: “if they don’t need poetry bully for them, I like the movies too. ...
- Forgotten icons of caste struggle - Times of India
Forgotten icons of caste struggleTimes of India, India - Nov 9, 2008Laments Shivji Darji, 76, resident of Raikhad: "Its sad that not many realise their significance. Some have small temples built in them, but others have ...
- Elementary, My Dears column: The best of times for teachers (San Mateo County Times)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom ... "This Charles Dickens line that begins "Tale of Two Cities" often describes our vocation.
- Synod: Interview with Cardinal Francis George - NCR Conversation Cafe
Synod: Interview with Cardinal Francis GeorgeNCR Conversation Cafe, MO - 57 minutes agoAt the same time, you have to discover what inerrancy means when you’re not reading a newspaper, but you’re reading poetry, or a myth of some sort, ...
- Music Review: Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - Blogcritics.org
Music Review: Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back HomeBlogcritics.org, OH - 4 hours agoUnderpinning these lyrics was creative poetry and ultimately a beauty. “Subterranean Homesick Blues†begins the album by continuing Dylan’s withdrawal from ...
- More classes available with distance learning - Catskill Daily Mail
More classes available with distance learningCatskill Daily Mail, NY - 3 hours agoBy David Gordon CAIRO  As Frank Hines walked into his poetry class at Cairo-Durham High School Friday, his instructor, Dr. Deb Herodes, greeted him. ...
- No Name Poetry finds niche in Lincoln (Daily Nebraskan)
The No Name Reading Series kicked into gear last Friday at Sur Tango, in downtown Lincoln. The bimonthly event will be back next Friday and every other Friday after that. The poets are not as anonymous as their name suggests, but are in fact young literary Ph.
- Globe Northwest community bulletin board - Boston Globe
Globe Northwest community bulletin boardBoston Globe, United States - 9 hours agoGrey Court Poets - The Nevins Memorial Library is looking for all poets or fans of poetry to start a Grey Court Poets group in Methuen. ...
- Elton John joins the ovations in first night 'friller' for Billy ... - Daily Mail
Daily MailElton John joins the ovations in first night 'friller' for Billy ...Daily Mail, UK - 12 hours ago'This show makes sure that we always keep in mind the grittiness and despair of the society that produced Billy, so that the poetry of his dancing seems all ...
- Ballot Language Can Baffle Voters - The Ledger
Ballot Language Can Baffle VotersThe Ledger, FL - 4 hours ago"In a perfect world, it would have been poetry," said Eric Draper of Audubon of Florida. But Draper said the staff of the TBRC was constrained by state law ...
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