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- VIDEO: Olympic medal joy for Scots canoeist (The Herald)
David Florence became the first Scot to win a medal at the Beijing Olympics yesterday, as he took silver in the canoe slalom. His Edinburgh-based parents said last night they were delighted by his win - and revealed he had recently applied to be an astronaut.
- Watchung resident celebrates 107th birthday - MyCentralJersey.com
WATCHUNG — A popular resident of McAuley Hall who marked her 106th birthday in 2007 by starring in a performance of Little Red Riding Hood celebrated her 107th year yesterday by playing herself instead. Elegantly dressed in a little black dress and ...
- A small town in Iowa in photos, then and now (Seattle Times)
In the four decades he's lived in the farm town of Oxford, Iowa (population 705), Peter Feldstein, 66, has remained something of an outsider...
- Two Friends--One Deceased--Reconnect Through Childhood Letters (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
When Laura learns her best friend Katharine has been found dead in a dumpster, Laura begins to reevaluate her own life. Finding her and Katharine's childhood letters allows Laura to evaluate the choices she has made and reconsider her future.
- Review and Interview, 'Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami' on PBS Aug ... - Monsters and Critics.com
Monsters and Critics.comReview and Interview, 'Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami' on PBS Aug ...Monsters and Critics.com - 19 minutes agoIt was the falling from grace that Malcolm experienced with the religious movement that put his friend Ali in the controversial favored son position to the ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, July 17th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Thursday, July 17thOpEdNews, PA - 6 hours agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Paperbacks: Answering Back, Ed. Carol Ann Duffy (Independent)
PICADOR £8.99 (148PP) (FREE P&P) FROM 0870 079 8897Good poetry is always a spirited conversation between then and now. This eye-opening anthology pairs 46 poems from the past with new partners: works by current poets that echo, wrestle, back-chat or otherwise engage with them. The couplings are sometimes odd, but always lively. Wit, mischief and (as Duffy's preface puts it) "electricty" crackle ...
- Pishko Najmadin – Memoirs of a veteran and leader in the Komala and PUK (Kurdish Media)
The memoirs written by the Kurdish veteran and former leader in the Komala and PUK is the best that I have read in many years, which reflects the reality of the armed-struggle against the tyrannies and enemies of freedom. This book has now been published both inside and outside of Kurdistan.
- Ed Harcourt: The Beautiful Lie (Pitchfork)
No, the host of "Morning Becomes Eclectic" hasn't started writing his own songs; it's the latest album from that dude who used to get compared to Elliott Smith and Rufus Wainwright but now gets bracketed with Tom McRae and Damien Rice. read more
- Jefferson's Other Family - Slate
I have long considered David Lodge's novels a guilty pleasure. They are comedies of manners that, despite Lodge's literary aspirations, succeed mostly as what Graham Greene called entertainments. Lodge chooses themes that are serious enough. The ...
- Our View: Join Merrill celebration of history - Wausau Daily Herald
Our View: Join Merrill celebration of historyWausau Daily Herald, WI - 2 hours agoThe big-tent-style show will add local photographs and old train footage from Merrill to its lineup of music, poetry and visual images celebrating Wisconsin ...
- To love or not to love? - Malaysia Star
To love or not to love?Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 5 hours agoSo I decided to work with something a little more subjective – poetry,†says Ling of his decision to work with sonnets. “Of course, we still had to tackle ...
- Centennial girl: ‘Anne of Green Gables' turns 100 - The State
Anne Shirley, the main character in L. M. Montgomery's acclaimed novel "Anne of Green Gables," is introduced to readers as a sad figure, an orphan without a person in the world who loves her. Despite her lonely introduction, Anne has captured the ...
- Deploying airmen make storytime DVDs for their children - NW Florida Daily News
HURLBURT FIELD - Tim Karsten regrets not taking advantage of one USO service before his last deployment. He learned how much his 16-year-old daughter missed him while he was gone. "She told me she called a phone number that she knew no one would ...
- Saving a youth center: Bartech founder seeks funds to give other kids the lift in life he received (Crain's Detroit Business)
Bartech Group founder John Barfield moved from Pennsylvania to the Parkridge Projects on Ypsilantiand#39;s south side during the 1940s when he was 15 years old.
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