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- Don Henley: A pretty fly guy - Independent
Share Midway through the first CD of The Eagles' new double album, Long Road out of Eden, there's a fabulous Don Henley / Steuart Smith ballad called "Waiting in the Weeds". Like Henley's 1985 solo hit, "The Boys of Summer", it tackles themes of ...
- Charles Spencer wonders if verse is worse - Daily Telegraph
Things are going from bad to worse,/ Our stages flooded with dodgy verse./ It's really getting up my nose,/ Please let's return to decent prose. Preposterous tosh: Fram is a rhymed epic about a Scandanavian polar explorer I'm sorry to sound a ...
- Centennial girl: ‘Anne of Green Gables' turns 100 (The Kansas City Star)
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 hearts of generations of young women.
- Poetry in locomotion - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Poetry in locomotionMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 4 hours agoBy RICK BARRETT Inventor Harry Schoell has a new engine that he says can run on almost anything that burns. What’s more, the engine is nearly silent and ...
- Around The Towns - Bristol Press
Around The TownsBristol Press, United States - 5 hours agoPOETRY AND MUSIC FESTIVAL: In partnership with select high schools and student competitions, including the IMPAC-CSU Young Writers Competition, ...
- Noll, Scott, Skinner, Paice, Stanek, Lacey Take Wing in Signature's Ace Aug. 27 (Playbill)
Ace, the Broadway-aimed musical about a boy's flight through his own family history, begins performances Aug. 27 in Arlington, VA, with a flock of divas helping to keep the production aloft.
- Institute for Learning in Retirement announces fall schedule - Dunn County News
Dunn County NewsInstitute for Learning in Retirement announces fall scheduleDunn County News, WI - 9 hours agoSince the end of the Vietnam War, he has been studying how people settle conflicts and writing about peaceful ways to resolve them. ...
- Discovered 'Genji' sets offer avenues for interpretationBy Tomoko ... - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
OSAKA--Two recently discovered full 54-chapter sets of "The Tale of Genji" are expected to open the door to new interpretations of the world's oldest surviving full-length novel, which marks its 1,000th anniversary this year. Many chapters in both of ...
- Riding The Tome Truck - Mumbai Newsline
Riding The Tome TruckMumbai Newsline, India - 1 hour ago“Eminent people engage the crowd with short story recitations, poetry, comedy, psychiatry and counselling. Besides it would also be a platform for local ...
- Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith Nation - Huffington Post
Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith NationHuffington Post, NY - 1 hour agoDoes Keith know that of the 468 people lynched in Texas, a whopping 339 were African-American (a partial list of black Texan lynching victims is here)? ...
- Angeline Toomey, 103, wrote poetry - Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
Angeline Toomey, 103, wrote poetryHillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com, OR - 1 hour agoIn 1908, her family moved to Alberta, Canada. Her mother died in 1909 and she lived with friends of the family. In 1918, she moved to Portland with the Alex ...
- Encore Offers New Mini-Courses For Fall - Chattanoogan
Lee University's Encore program, which offers people 60 and over the opportunity to take university courses for credit for a $50 fee, will be offering eight new mini-courses designed specifically for program participants. The Play's the Thing will be ...
- An Olympic photo finish - National Post
An Olympic photo finishNational Post, Canada - 22 hours agoLong before Kevin Light was an Olympic men's eight rower, he was a kid in British Columbia with a camera. This summer Light experienced two firsts: an ...
- Island woman a portrait in courage - Staten Island Advance
The poem is simple inspiration, typed in capital letters with one finger on one hand by a former executive secretary who once did 70 words a minute. Although each stroke Joan DiFiore makes on the keyboard these days can be laced with pain from ...
- Vietnamese pagodas in the lands of Buddhism - VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet BridgeVietnamese pagodas in the lands of BuddhismVietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - Jul 16, 2008Everywhere in the pagoda are maps of Vietnam in dark brown carved on the walls. The pagoda has a great belt of 2.5 tons and a great drum of 2m in diameter, ...
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