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- Stories in the Service of Making a Better Doctor - Star News Online
The white-coated crowd with stethoscopes slung casually around their necks would have looked familiar to anyone who has attended morning hospital rounds. Resident physicians and medical students milled about, chatting animatedly, and at the appointed ...
- The Achebean Restoration, by Ekwe-Ekwe - Vanguard
VanguardThe Achebean Restoration, by Ekwe-EkweVanguard, Nigeria - 6 hours agoAs Robert Wren has cogently observed, “much of Achebe’s fiction, like the greatest fiction, has something of the compression of poetry, which says much in ...
- Obituaries (The Herald-Mail)
Harry W. Barkley, 76, Mary Lou Lanham, 87, Harold L. Bender, 81, Jean E. Staley, 78, Francis C. Kajencki, 89, Charlotte A. Snowberger, 77, Robert B. Witt, 87,
- New Cultural Center Announces Fall Programming - EKU News Center
New Cultural Center Announces Fall ProgrammingEKU News Center, KY - 1 hour agoTuesday, Oct. 21, 6-10 pm, “Poetry Slam,” original spoken word program, Cultural Center, 110 Powell, co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student ...
- College Football > NFL - Bleacher Report
Bleacher ReportCollege Football > NFLBleacher Report, CA - 10 hours agoYou found corners in the library to bang the cute girl from your poetry class in. You go into college and most people come out a completely different person ...
- 'Jesus was a Palestinian,' claims U.S. history text - WorldNetDaily
A new study reveals that if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to criticize the nation of Israel before the United Nations, he could use American public school textbooks to do so. "It is shocking to find the kind of misinformation we ...
- Hayden Carruth, 87; poet wrote of life's 'miserloos' - Boston Globe
Awakening one night, the poet Hayden Carruth found a spider sharing his pillow. "I blew at it gently," he later wrote, "and I swear it turned around and looked at me." Such attention to minutiae and to the sprawl of human emotion informed his poetry ...
- Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide To This Week’s Movies: Women In Love (The New York Observer)
In The World Unseen , we learn (unsurprisingly) that Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s—at the start of apartheid—was anything but good times for blacks or Indians or really anyone who wasn’t lily white. In this film, adapted and directed by Shamim Sarif from her own novel, so many hot issues are at play that it’s a bit dizzying to keep track of who is being oppressed by whom. But here ...
- Literary legend Hass awarded UI Honorary Degree (first in four-part ... - Daily Iowan
Robert Hass has spent most of his life and career in the Golden State, but he still cherishes Iowa City as a "legendary place." And rightfully so, because the UI Honorary Degree Committee also sees the internationally acclaimed poet as a literary ...
- Cindy Adams Hearts Zac Efron, Whom She’s Never Met - Nymag.com
A-Rod 's furniture looks "surprisingly midrange" in the $14 million Park Avenue condo he and estranged wife Cynthia are trying to sell. John Simon, the meanest theater critic of all time, will teach poetry at Marymount Writing Center. Pity the bad ...
- Piece of Regina history up for auction - Canada.com
Canada.comPiece of Regina history up for auctionCanada.com, Canada - 14 hours agoAs he often did at the time, Riel - who came to see himself as a Judeo-Christian freedom fighter in the tradition of the biblical King David - signed his ...
- Big human questions in 'Rock 'n' Roll' - Philadelphia Inquirer
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is about political history and love and rock music and families and sex and death and passionately held ideologies; it's about cancer and Sappho's poetry and newspapers; it's about the differences between freedom and ...
- Africa: Black And Proud (AllAfrica.com)
THE OBAMA-MCCAIN CON-frontation yields unusual lessons. One is that ignorance -- even when it is deployed against a longstanding evil -- may prove just as dangerous as that evil. Take the enduring anti-black discrimination in that country's employment market.
- Dion answers Liberal critics with Rae at his side - Globe and Mail
Need Java from Toronto, Canada writes: In defense of Bob Rae what happened to Ontario was helped along by the ruling Conservatives of the time. Brian set the stage with Free Trade that was stage one in the transferral of manufacturing jobs down south ...
- South Africa pays tribute to `Mama Africa' Makeba (The Charlotte Observer)
(By DONNA BRYSON, Associated Press Writer) A trumpet wailed and poetry soared Saturday as South Africans remembered "Mama Africa," Miriam Makeba, for her music and her commitment to human rights. The memorial service after Makeba's death Monday at the age of 76 followed two days of national mourning, with flags at half staff and books of condolences at the presidency and parliament - honors due ...
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