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- Buzz Briefs: Amy Winehouse, Kanye West (CBS News)
Amy Winehouse faints. Sara Evans gets hitched. Kanye West's delayed Bonnaroo set angers crowd. Heidi Klum no glamour mom. Simply Red goes blue.
- Edison teen learns lesson in standing up for herself (Miami Herald)
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacificist and now jail bird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl shell, the 5-foot-4 Miami Edison Senior High student feared using the toilet with other inmates and guards watching. Disgusted by the smell of the ...
- Translation captures irony of original - Daily Item
This superb new English version of Flaubert’s masterpiece at last makes it possible to understand how Flaubert could say of his heroine, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi!†The mystery here for many readers has been how Flaubert managed to make his ...
- The Hollow Man - New York Times
THESE days, as I watch Robert Mugabe tighten his 28-year-old stranglehold on Zimbabwe while the forces of opposition try to pry away his fingers, I can’t help thinking back to a conversation he and I once tried to have about T. S. Eliot, poetry and ...
- Going A Bit Woodcraft Folk - Guardian Unlimited
Peering through binoculars from its vantage point in the bushes beside Italy's Viennese training base earlier today, the Fiver was able to read the papers on a nearby newsstand. One reported that Luca Toni looked tired, while another declared its ...
- Boardwalk in Cape Town - May 13, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk in Cape Town - May 13, 2008Tonight, South Africa - May 13, 2008Poetry, song and dance. Tel: 083-270-5592. The Show Must Go On runs at Roxy Revue Bar, Grandwest Casino until May 24. Tribute to Queen. Tickets: R67. ...
- Computer meltdown has our days in a daze - Daily Breeze
Computer meltdown has our days in a dazeDaily Breeze, CA - 2 hours agoNeither do they countenance cajoling, kind words or the casual recitation of poetry. Face it, they are cold creatures that absolutely despise contrived ...
- Idlewild Elementary defying the odds - Charlotte.com
When Idlewild Elementary's Odyssey of the Mind team won a state championship, the coaches were as thrilled as the kids. Then they learned what it would cost to get to Maryland for the world finals -- a tab approaching $10,000 for the whole team. "I ...
- Author ‘not very creative’ with uni students’ marks - Hounslow Guardian
Kingston Uni's creative writing course is at the centre of controversy following the revelation that leading novelist Hanif Kureishi, a research fellow on the course, awards all his students distinctions regardless of the work they produce. Kureishi ...
- School Notes (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
An astronaut visited West Chester earlier this month and talked to youngsters from three schools about the past, present, and future of America's space program.
- Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in US - Munster Times
Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in USMunster Times, IN - 8 hours agoMotivated by psychedelic '60s music and John Keats poetry, Islam concocted The Green Fairy ($15), a hypnotic blend of North Shore Absinthe, ...
- Canadian Centennial Choir pleases a packed house - Ottawa Citizen
The Canadian Centennial Choir is something of an anomaly. As its name implies, it has been around since 1967, and it has a decent following. Rightly or wrongly it was considered an "also ran" on the Ottawa choral scene for many years. Things improved ...
- Book launch with a cultural twist (The Star)
INSTEAD of giving long, formal speeches, author Johny Chee opted for a more fun and interesting way to launch the second edition of his book “A Tapestry of Baba Poetryâ€.
- Amy Winehouse Studied (Undercover)
Students at Cambridge University are studying a song by Amy Winehouse. 'Love Is A Losing Game' from her 'Back To Black' album is being discussed as poetry for English literature students of the University.
- Standing Witness: Horacio Moya's 'Senselessness' (The New York Sun)
One index of the death or life of the novel must be its political relevance, and it's no coincidence that the repeated flourishing of Latin-American literature has a lot to do with that region's seemingly bottomless reserve of war and strife. The most recent flourishing — at least as it appears to an English-language reader — centers on Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003), a Chilean who fictionalized the ...
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