Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning poet who has turned her hand to children's books--poetry anthologies, picture books, and young adult novels--which in one way or another deal with the idea of conn...
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Naomi Shihab Nye has said, "For me the primary source of poetry has always been local life, random characters met on the streets, our own ancestry sifting down to us through small essential daily task...
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A couple of years ago, I fell hard for a dark-haired Swedish drummer who was in a metal band called Obligatory Torture. (In its native form, Obligatorisk Tortyr, it sounded kind of sexy.) He had a ...
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It’s been a big year for Towbin Dodge, and car sales have little to do with it. The auto dealership was named top exclusive Dodge dealer in the United States, it produced another string of hi...
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So, the great social experiment has failed.That's the undertow in the wave of opinions following a recent attack in Shaker Heights, Ohio, which has long had a national reputation for successful int...
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If that sounds like the same primitive mind-set that created our current disaster, then consider yourself forewarned. Mr. Giuliani is a fervent admirer of George W. Bush, whose election he consider...
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If you've thought of quitting your day job and starting your own business, you're not alone. According to the Small Business Administration, 672,000 companies were created in 2005. That's the bigge...
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The conceptualist aesthetic has engulfed the cultural landscape like an overeducated blob, blurring the fundamental truth that visual art is, you know, visual. Thinking about art and all the issues...
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Throughout his five-and-a-half years as mayor, Mike Bloomberg has come across as something of a revolutionary in pinstripes, tearing down the old ways of doing things and replacing them with method...
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