“Your absence has gone through meLike thread through a needle.Everything I do is stitched with its color.” I love poetry and the poets that make it. W.S. Merwin is nearly as old as my Dad, and he is now given...
New Delhi: India's flagship annual event to connect with its diaspora spread across the globe will begin in New Delhi on Thursday which will primarily focus on boosting investment and sharing of expertise. ...
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Holocaust surviver, Jewish icon, and Nobel laureate, Professor Elie Wiesel stated that victimization of Tamil people must stop, and they should be able to live in peace in their homeland. " TAMIL PEOPLE STATEMENT:...
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As Andrew Motion comes to the end of his term as Poet Laureate it appears hotly tipped Manchester based Carol Anne Duffy will step into his shoes. " Carol Ann Duffy is to be named as the new Poet Laureate, the first woman to be appointed in the 341-year history of the post. ...
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"Iranian police on Sunday raided and closed the office of a watchdog group led by Iran's Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi ahead of a celebration to mark International Human Rights Day. Iran's judiciary...
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London. July 13, 2008. The dance form of first Asian Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, will be the subject of a major study and preservation in the UK. "The project entitled Legacy, supported by Britain's...
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" ........Comparing Iran with the 1939 Nazi Germany is ridiculous. Germany was a powerful, industrialized nation that had been defeated in World War I. It had grievances against the victors who had humiliated it. Germany's culture was such that many Germans blindly...
The Guardian reports that more than a dozen people have been arrested in connection with a planned assassination of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk is an internationally respected author and...
"China and the United States are the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases.
He was speaking just hours before he was to accept the Nobel prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The United Nations body of about 3,000 experts jointly won the...
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"As far as unaccomplished celebrities go, Tila Tequila, the most popular person on MySpace, makes Paris Hilton look like a Nobel laureate.
Discovered in a US mall by a Playboy scout eight years ago, Tequila, whose real surname is Nguyen, sits among the new breed of...
"Five artists at the top of their chosen fields have received the prestigious Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award tonight.
Pianist Michael Houstoun, dancer Sarah-Jane Howard, entertainer Moana Maniapoto, theatre director Colin McColl, and ceramicist Merilyn Wiseman...
""The 'business as usual' energy path we are on today is not sustainable and is counter to the long-term prosperity of every nation," said Nobel Laureate Steven Chu today, co-chair of Lighting the Way and Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
"This report stresses...
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Good riddance, I say. It is a right and bold step. Kudos to the institute."The Nobel Laureate who provoked an international row by apparently claiming that black people are less intelligent than whites left...
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Columbus, Ohio (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - It took 30 years for
Chemical Abstracts Service to publish its first million abstracts. CAS
indexed more than a million records in 2006 alone, reflecting the
accelerated pace of research and discovery around the globe.
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This past May, Elie Wiesel was accosted by a man claiming we wanted to take Wiesel to his hotel room to interview him. It later emerged that there were some anti-semitic undercurrents to the attack. Wiesel...
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