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- Vandals ponder 'road not taken' - Detroit News
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Is this yoga for you? - Cebu Daily News
Is this yoga for you?Cebu Daily News, Philippines - 1 hour agoBy Anne Jambora MANILA, Philippines—The poetry in movement—that which connects the body, mind and spirit—breathes life back into the busy modern age as ...
- Will Barack Obama be a transformational president or another ... - Georgia Straight
Will Barack Obama be a transformational president or another ...Georgia Straight, Canada - 11 hours agoHe is transformational not only by his charisma and brilliance, but by embodying the possibility of an African-American being chosen president in the ...
- Ivy Bean There, Done That, at 103 - OhmyNews
After a lifetime of obscurity, this British great-grandmother, Ivy Bean, who will be 103 on Sept. 8, has rocketed to world fame. Why? Because friends at her care home in Bradford, Yorkshire, set up a group called "Oldest person on Facebook" and ...
- Literary dark knights - Metromix
Literary dark knightsMetromix, IL - 10 hours agoThe end result reimagines the world of caped crusaders as a funny, lonely and weird place....and one far more believable than that of "The Dark Knight. ...
- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road - The Independent
The womanising, the four bottles of wine a day and the five-year retreat in a Buddhist monastery are all behind him. This week, Leonard Cohen embarks on his first British tour for 15 years. And the former poet laureate of despair might even be ...
- Profile of a newsmaker: Griswold High senior receives award for leadership (The Norwich Bulletin)
Nicholas R. Jamrock, 17, received a 2008 award in student leadership from the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.
- Controversial 'Stitching' Gets Second Extension in NYC (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Popular demand has prompted a second extension of the U.S. premiere of Stitching by Anthony Neilson, directed by Timothy Haskell. The run will now end Aug. 9 at The Wild Project in Manhattan.
- Pre-schoolers stage Child’s Month ‘Dancamasing’ - SKNVibes.com
SKNVibes.comPre-schoolers stage Child’s Month ‘Dancamasing’SKNVibes.com, St. Kitts and Nevis - 1 hour agoThis section also featured poetry, various games, steel pan music and songs. The children’s excited performance of the song “Romp and Stomp” brought down ...
- A cup of poetry (Plymouth Observer)
"It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there."
- AP Top News at 6:12 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois sealed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. A defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket. Obama's victory set up a five-month campaign with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a race ...
- 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 ...
- Playwright’s Festival returns to Telluride - The Daily Planet
Playwright’s Festival returns to TellurideThe Daily Planet, CO - 9 hours agoBy Susan Viebrock Good drama finds poetry in the flotsam and jetsam of our lives. It survives because it extrapolates what is universal and eternal — and ...
- Youth movement alive and well - Taunton Daily Gazette
Youth movement alive and wellTaunton Daily Gazette, USA - 4 hours agoThe center will serve as a safe haven where kids can get together, listen to music, work on their writing or their poetry, and there will be mentors and ...
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? (WorldNet Daily)
For years, I had a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging on my living room wall. I had painted it while in high school in New York at a salon overseen by Helen Farr Sloan, the widow of famed American painter John Sloan and herself a painter of no small talent.
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