Indulge love of literature at festival

Indulge love of literature at festival
Free Lance-Star - This week, Charlottesville hosts its annual literary binge. It's the 12th Virginia Festival of the Book, a series of lectures, readings and panel discussions on just about any topic between two covers. About 300 authors and thousands of readers
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Flexing Brains: Feats of Memory
Wired News - Old records were smashed at the ninth annual U.S.A. National Memory Championship in New York City Saturday, and a new champion emerged. Flanked by bottles of Glaceau Smartwater and tools of the memory-contest trade -- pens, scratch paper, earplugs
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Alaskans in several cities join protests against the Iraq war
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska towns joined communities across the nation in holding rallies and forums to protest the Iraq war this weekend, on the third anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.-led war. A small group clustered in front of Anchorage's federal building
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Robert Blake works as ranch hand and plans acting comeback
Seattle Times - MALIBU, Calif. A year after Robert Blake was acquitted in criminal court of killing his wife, the former actor spends his days exercising horses at a friend's ranch and planning a comeback. He acknowledges the past year has often been a time of
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A poet who believes she can make a difference
Philadelphia Daily News - IN THE LANGUAGE of poets, Pat McLean-RaShine is my sistah. She is a mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, aunt and friend who wears her womanhood from the inside out. We met more than eight years ago at a poetry-writing workshop at Temple University
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Actor works as ranch hand, plans comeback
KTRK - He acknowledges the past year has often been a time of despair, particularly the civil trial last fall in which a jury ordered him to pay his wife's family $30 million. But the 72-year-old Blake, who was a child actor in the "Our Gang" movie series
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