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- UA debate team shines (The Buchtelite)
While the nation's eyes are focused upon the presidential debates, the University of Akron debate team turned a few heads of its own. Last weekend UA's debate team, led by coach Mark Rittenour, competed in two separate tournaments at George Mason University.
- Mark Lawson: Poetry is often misunderstood, but that doesn't mean we should ban it (Guardian Unlimited)
Mark Lawson: Carol Ann Duffy's work on violence is ideal for classroom discussion. It's a poem, not a memo
- Community Works NYC Announces New Theater Season (All About Jazz)
Community Works, a trailblazer in arts education, announces its 2008-2009 Theater Connections calendar of events.
- Theater director and professor sets the stage at teen center - Monadnock Ledger
PETERBOROUGH -- Being the teen center coordinator at Club Cannon is a two-pronged job, said John Sefel, 31, who stepped into the position in August. "One half of it is really devoted to the teen center and to the open teen center hours, and that is ...
- 'Bigger' filmmaker explores his struggle with steroids - MLive.com
Courtesy Photo Flexing muscles: Filmmaker Chris Bell, right, chats with a bodybuilder in his documentary, "Bigger Stronger Faster." Confession: I drank about 16 ounces of coffee before writing this review. No, not the wimpy decaf stuff, but the full ...
- Forbidden fruit in the classroom - Age
Sex between teachers and students may be a taboo subject but that didn't stop author Peter Goldsworthy taking it on in his new book. Everything I Knew is the seventh novel for the prolific South Australian novelist and poet, who divides his time ...
- Grades 5 & Up - School Library Journal
AGUIAR, Nadia . The Lost Island of Tamarind . Bk. 1. 448p. (The Book of Tamarind Series). Feiwel & Friends . Oct. 2008. Tr $17.95. ISBN 978-0-312-38029-8 . LC number unavailable. Gr 5–8— Maya, 13; her younger brother, Simon; and baby Penny are ...
- Hewlett-Packard to shed 25,000 jobs as result of buying EDS (Guardian Unlimited)
Most of the cuts will come from within EDS's ranks, and nearly half will hit jobs in the US, HP said
- Matthiessen, Robinson among book award finalists (Washington Post)
NEW YORK -- Talk about second chances: Peter Matthiessen, 81, received a National Book Award nomination Wednesday for "Shadow Country," an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s.
- Vt. professor is National Book Award finalist - BurlingtonFreePress.com
Vt. professor is National Book Award finalistBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 7 hours agoMy Father's Summers, a memoir written in prose poems, was a PEN finalist as well as the winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize for YA Literature in 2006. ...
- A jammin' block party - Waterloo Record
Waterloo RecordA jammin' block partyWaterloo Record, Canada - 3 hours agoA half-hour fashion show on the side stage Saturday afternoon will feature corset designs by London designer Dawn Rawson of Love, Poetry Corsets. ...
- Books special: Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? - The Independent
Is the paper-and-ink book heading the way of the papyrus scroll? Can serious literature survive in the brave new world of web downloads, e-books and ever-shortening attention spans? John Walsh introduces our special section Look at this chap sitting ...
- Pearls from the Bosporus - American Chronicle
American ChroniclePearls from the BosporusAmerican Chronicle, CA - 5 hours agoAt the same time, the novel documents a plethora of objects of daily use from the surroundings of the unhappy beloved and it is his way of symbolically ...
- Al Nofi's CIC (Strategy Page)
This Issue... "Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general." “Parataxis,” a lit-crit term describing works in which “discrete segments of either poetry or prose follow each other in sequence,” like Caesar’s " Veni; vidi; vici ," is actually the ancient Greek military word for “deployed for battle,” that is, with the troops formed up side by side.
- The BSO’s Carmina burana, the Cantata Singers, the Boston Camerata ... - The Phoenix
The PhoenixThe BSO’s Carmina burana, the Cantata Singers, the Boston Camerata ...The Phoenix, MA - 3 hours agoCarmina burana means something like “Bavarian songs” — since this remarkable poetry manuscript was found in a monastery near Munich. ...
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