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- Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills - San Jose Mercury News
Religious retreats: Head to the CatskillsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 14 hours agoThe woman washing dishes described herself as a Sufi Christian. That afternoon, there would be a discussion of the mystical, reverent 13th-century poetry of ...
- Keeping kids' dreams alive - San Bernardino Sun
Keeping kids' dreams aliveSan Bernardino Sun, CA - 4 hours agoOn a recent morning, English teacher David Burrus listened while nervous students gave poetry readings at a podium in the front of the class. ...
- Civil Unrest - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Israeli agents who kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960 found the notorious death camp doctor Josef Mengele but let him get away, one of the operatives said Tuesday. Mengele was one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, a ...
- Just let them bead (Pensacola News Journal)
Mother, daughter jewelry-makers gain national attention
- Poets and Musicians at Tara - Indymedia Ireland
Feis Teamhra, a turn at Tara Poets and musicians will perform at "Feis Teamhra, a turn at Tara" on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath on Sunday 24th. August at 3.30pm. Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer prize-winner, will read his poetry to celebrate and honour Tara ...
- City Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the same page (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Buenos Aires had Borges. St. Petersburg had Pushkin. And Nabokov. And Akhmatova. And Brodsky. Not to mention Dostoevsky. (Ah, the Russians!) Even petite Newburyport, Mass., population 17,000, draws thousands of tourists and over 60 authors to its annual literary festival. What about San Diego?
- Poetry program still on a roll (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
WILKES-BARRE — Since the inception of the “Poetry in Transit†program last year, Mischelle Anthony has become known on the bus as the “Poetry Lady.â€
- 'Up the Yangtze' personalizes cost of progress (The Capital Times)
I suppose if they rerouted the Mississippi River and displaced millions of Midwesterners, we'd make a few movies about it, too. On the heels of "Manufactured Landscapes" and "Still Life" comes "Up the Yangtze," yet another film about the aftershocks of China's Three Gorges Dam project. The massive dam is the largest hydroelectric project in the world, and a symbol of China's status as a global ...
- Soldiering on - Guardian Unlimited
In one of Tobias Wolff's early stories, a married professor has a one-night stand with a vulnerable woman helping out with the catering at an academic conference. Brooke, the professor, dislikes his colleague Riley, a Yeats scholar with an ...
- Muzzie and the boys harmonize again - Southern Idaho Business
Muzzie and the boys harmonize againSouthern Idaho Business, ID - 38 minutes agoMotley Crue co-founder Nikki Sixx, who grew up in Jerome and Twin Falls in the early 1970s as Frank Ferrana, has a new book out, called "The Heroin Diaries" ...
- Transforming the University of Texas at Arlington - Fort Worth Business Press
This fall marks five years since I was named president of the University of Texas at Arlington. Even before I arrived on campus, I recognized the great promise of this University. In less than five years, we’ve accomplished much. UT-Arlington is a ...
- Soaring towards serenity - Irish Times
Soaring towards serenityIrish Times, Ireland - 1 hour agoThis is one of the reasons why Hutchinson's poems are "newsworthy" - in the sense that poetry worth reading is always "news that stays news". ...
- Time Out at 40 - guardian.co.uk
Time Out at 40guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoReaders of the first Time Out could go to Joe Cocker or Jethro Tull gigs at the Marquee on Wardour Street, catch a poetry reading on Petticoat Lane, ...
- New Book Exposes Anti-Christian and Anti-Semitic Bias in U.S. K-12 ... - Earthtimes
SAN FRANCISCO , Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR) today announces the release of The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion by Dr. Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra . The five-year ...
- Mythology lights the path to bliss (The Australian)
COMPOSER Liza Lim and librettist Patricia Sykes were like two brave voyagers afloat in a small boat on a vast sea when they undertook to work together on their opera The Navigator.
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