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- Carla Bruni, wife of the French President, sings of 30 lovers - Times Online
Carla Bruni, the chanteuse wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, is to release a new album on which she sings of 30 past lovers and compares one of them to taking hard drugs. But rather than embarrass her husband, her work is likely to give him a boost. “You ...
- Are voters ready to move beyond race? - Tulsa World
One of the funniest and most disturbing moments in the recently ended Democratic presidential campaign came after Hillary Clinton won the West Virginia primary. On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart strung together videotape of what some West Virginia ...
- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness (The New York Sun)
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a composer be acclaimed for his mastery of rests? In fact, though Stafford often wrote about silence — and made grand claims for it — he was an unusually ...
- Bay schools are buzzing with celebrations - The Herald Eastern Cape
Bay schools are buzzing with celebrationsThe Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 34 minutes agoTeachers will focus on his childhood, political activities, imprisonment and release, family life and his retirement. Pupils will present poetry, ...
- 400 units to get Rs 20 cr subsidy today - Tribune
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will hand over the cheques to industrialists at a function here that would be presided over by industries and commerce minister Manoranjan Kalia. With this disbursement, industrialists are hopeful that the backlog ...
- Pumped up through a volume of music - Newsday
Pumped up through a volume of musicNewsday, NY - 3 hours agoGreenlaw is best known as a poet, and her memoir has the precision and intensity of prose poetry. Her mother's madrigal choir fills a room with "a noise ...
- The Movie Masochist: The unexpected, undeserving summer hit - Miami Herald
Hollywood's stream of bad movies usually seems endless, but sometimes there's a drought. This often happens during the summer, when all the big studio movies stomp their way into multiplexes after marking their opening weekends with the noise and ...
- Judith W. Switzer (The Staunton News Leader)
MCDOWELL — Judith (Wooddell) Switzer, 75, of McDowell went to be with the Lord, Sunday, May 25, 2008. She was born October 29, 1932, at Doe Hill a daughter of the late Hugh Marvin and Mary Catherine (Carpenter) Wooddell.
- Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award - Irish World News
For anyone between 11-17 years of age, the Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is an exciting opportunity to discover a talent you never knew you had, or maybe quietly thought you had but lacked the confidence to act upon. Whether ...
- EURO 2008: Croatia's Slaven Bilic is an out-of-the-ordinary soccer coach (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
ZAGREB, Croatia - Slaven Bilic is no ordinary soccer coach.
- A fun day with dad - Stockton Record
A fun day with dadStockton Record, CA - 3 hours agoThe first-time event, organized by Sammy Nunez, who works with Fathers & Families of San Joaquin, featured entertainment, food, poetry readings, ...
- Local horror writer reaches the world online - Maine Coast Now
Maine Coast NowLocal horror writer reaches the world onlineMaine Coast Now, ME - 7 hours ago“I’ve always done shorts, and my style is to combine horror with poetry, and people are really liking it,†he said. According to Osgood, the owner of the ...
- Plenty to do this Saturday- including a trip to the Wild West - Aylesbury Today
Plenty to do this Saturday- including a trip to the Wild WestAylesbury Today, UK - 3 hours agoIf you've a talent you'd like to share with others, why not join us for an evening of music, comedy, poetry and magic. Mainly an acoustic evening - under 18 ...
- Dream time - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeDream timeBoston Globe, United States - 55 minutes ago"The Ghost Soldiers" continues the trend in Tate's recent books to dissolve the boundaries between verse and prose as yet another means of rebelling against ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Dandenong Leader
Dandenong LeaderFinding challenge in verseDandenong Leader, Australia - 11 hours agoShe will often find herself sitting in front of her laptop in her quiet Eltham study with a perfectly formed idea for the shape of a poem, but little idea ...
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