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- British woman wins appeal of terror-related charge - Boston Globe
LONDON— A British woman won her appeal on Tuesday against a conviction for collecting information which would be useful to a terrorist. Samina Malik, 24, was convicted in December and given a suspended sentence of nine months in prison in Britain ...
- Robert Redford, Slammin' - NPR News
Robert Redford on Capitol Hill in April. Source: Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images Going green is all the rage now. Interior designers, car companies... Even McDonald's is doing the green thing. I have family members working for Greenpeace now. Green, my ...
- Writing contest encourages storytelling - Williams Lake Tribune
Williams Lake TribuneWriting contest encourages storytellingWilliams Lake Tribune, Canada - 5 hours agoOne of his stories was recently selected for publication in the Poetry Institute of Canada’s latest book for young writers called Clouds. ...
- What rhymes with taxes and crime? - Albany Times Union
What rhymes with taxes and crime?Albany Times Union, NY - 6 hours agoRome is burning and these guys ponder official prose. Gas and heating oil prices are going off the page and street gunfire is the worst in history. ...
- Grist Mill community theater at its finest - Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil
Grist Mill community theater at its finestCouncil Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, IA - 53 minutes agoAlthough the old dealership comes with possible hauntings, most of those have been community members scaring children through a black maze around Halloween. ...
- The legends of Wild Bill Watkins - Bridge
The legends of Wild Bill WatkinsBridge, MN - 55 minutes agoIt’sa broad term for all that he does: writing (he has won awards for poetry and has written magazine articles); speaking at engagements like Robert Burns ...
- 3 poets to speak at Dominican festival (Marin Independent Journal)
Three acclaimed poets will discuss their work at the concluding program of the Marin Poetry Festival on Sunday at Dominican University in San Rafael.
- PUC event raises $9300 for shelter in Peru - St. Helena Star
PUC event raises $9300 for shelter in PeruSt. Helena Star, CA - 1 hour agoThe May 18 event, called “REVO PUC,†included a flea market, a fashion show, poetry slam, a live concert by Hawaii-based rockers “Goodbye Elliott,†and a ...
- Poster poems: Listen to the music, write on - Guardian Blogs
There is, I suppose it goes almost without saying, a long and complex relationship between the twin arts of poetry and music. At its simplest, this relationship is expressed in the widespread belief that during some long-lost golden age, all poetry ...
- THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN by Christina Stead. 527 pages. Holt ... - Time
At the time it seemed like too much of a bad thing. Back in 1940, when Australia's Christina Stead (House of All Nations) first published The Man Who Loved Children, a world at war was in no mood to consider the perennial war between men and women ...
- Cortese wins Columbia 300 scholarship (InsideNoVa.com)
Columbia 300 has announced Natalie Cortese, a Hoffman Estates, Ill. resident, as the winner of the 2007-08 John Jowdy Scholarship.
- Arrangements pending for 'Renaissance man,' philanthropist Anthony Kane Baker, who died in plane crash (Palm Beach Daily News)
Funeral arrangements are pending for Anthony Kane Baker, a longtime Palm Beach resident who was killed Wednesday when his lightweight airplane crashed into the Tennessee River.
- Writers pay homage to mom at Other Side - Utica Observer Dispatch
Writers pay homage to mom at Other SideUtica Observer Dispatch, NY - 4 hours agoIf time permits, audience members may be encouraged to read their own poetry. The Other Side is an nonprofit community gathering and performance space for ...
- Authors club annouces Youth Writing contest (Salina Journal)
The Kansas Authors Club announces its 2008 Writing Contest for Youth. Kansas students, grades 1 through 12, may submit one entry in each of three categories. Entrants are grouped according to grade, with different word limits, for poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) on any subject.
- NORM: Dara Torres' ex still seems bitter - Las Vegas Review Journal
Swimming sensation Dara Torres wound up in the gossip section of a Miami-area newspaper over the weekend. Torres, at 41, has not only qualified to become the first American swimmer to compete in five Olympics but she will make history as the oldest ...
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