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- Bush to visit cradle of Christianity on Holy Land tour
- JERUSALEM AFP — US President George W. Bush, who has invoked his Christian faith to justify his policies over the last seven years, will this week embark on a pilgrimage to some of his religion's most sacred sites. Bush's first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories since taking...
- Research articles 2008-01-09
- Muslim clerics ban Koranic ringtones
- RIYADH AFP — A Saudi-based Muslim clerics' organization has banned the use of Koranic verses as mobile phone ringtones after a six-day meeting in the holy city of Mecca, a statement said on Thursday. "It is forbidden to use verses of the Koran as mobile telephone ringtones because any...
- Research articles 2007-11-08
- Saudi scholars in stormy debate over Koran ringtones
- RIYADH AFP — A top Islamic body in Saudi Arabia has hosted a stormy debate about using Koranic verses as mobile phone ringtones, newspapers reported Monday. "The scholars were divided on the use of verses from the Koran as mobile telephone ringtones," the Al-Hayat daily said, describing what it...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- Niger's ill–trained healers smiling all the way to the bank
- NIAMEY AFP — Ousmane, his long hair unkempt, his body reeking of stale beer, waits inside the little hut in a poor quarter of the Niger capital in the hope that its occupant, a traditional healer by the name of Mahmadou, will help him kick his drinking habit. Mahmadou, in...
- Research articles 2006-12-24
- Greens see red over a thousand Hindu fires in India
- KOLKATA, India AFP — Hindus in eastern India started more than a thousand fires in a mass ancient ritual that organizers said would help "fight diseases," but activists warned of environmental damage. Hundreds of priests chanted verses from Hindu scriptures and tonnes of wood and herbs were poured into more...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- Turkmenistan's loved-up president pens new poetry collection
- ASHGABAT AFP — Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, who is surrounded by a lavish personality cult, has turned his hand to romantic poetry, a state-run daily has said. A large part of the collection of poems he has penned "is devoted to the eternal theme of love in the widest sense...
- Research articles 2006-10-16
- Saudi schoolbooks still in dispute five years after 9/11
- RIYADH AFP — The September 11 attacks in which 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia triggered a torrent of US accusations that the Muslim kingdom's education system was fostering Islamic extremism. Five years on the debate continues. Saudi educators argue that the problem lies in misinterpretation...
- Research articles 2006-09-08
- Frenchman displays longest poem in the world
- CHAMPIER, France AFP — A 30 year-old Frenchman has put on display what he claimed is the longest poem in world -- nearly 7,600 verses written on a roll of fabric that stretched to almost one kilometre (0.62 miles) on a car-race track in southeast France. Patrick Huet, a...
- Research articles 2006-08-04
- Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman. David S. Reynolds. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]10.99. xi + 159 pages. ISBN 0-19-517009-1. This is the second title in the Lives and Legacies series from O.U.P. New York. The author draws on his earlier, prize-winning study, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography to reflect on Whitman the...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Placido Domingo wants to make music of Pope John Paul II's poems
- MADRID AFP — Opera tenor Placido Domingo reportedly wants to sing poetry written by Pope John Paul II, which he says is of "great literary value." "I've asked my son Placido who is a composer to write a musical score for lyrics based on the verse of John Paul...
- Research articles 2005-04-12
- John Berryman
- John Berryman The life of John Berryman (1914-1972) is at the center of his poetry. Dealing with obsession, tragedy, desire, ironic comedy, and the deep pain of life itself, Berryman's poetry is both brilliant and tormented. With The Dream Songs, which took him 13 years to complete, Berryman...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Too Close to Home: Middlebrow Anti-Modernism and the Sentimental Poetry of Edna Jaques
- This essay is a literary and cultural study of Canada's bestselling but largely forgotten poet of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Edna Jaques. It argues that Jaques's preference for sentimental verse and the largely western Canadian, female, and middle-class readership that bought her books combine to relegate Jaques outside of...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Devil's dictionary.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- New Haven, Conn. * During my years as a US Foreign Service officer, I relieved tension by writing topical verse. I've not outgrown the habit. How soothing is the lexicon of PR...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- BOOKS IN BRIEF
- BOOKS IN BRIEFI'll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, by Juan Williams and Dwayne Ashley (Amistad, $35). This informative volume chronicles the founding of historically Black colleges and universities HBCUs after the Civil War, their transformation from being governed by Whites to...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- R. Kelly comes up short at Chicago gig.(News)
- Byline: Elisabeth Mistretta Daily Herald Staff Writer Song collaborations between rappers and singers like R. Kelly are staples in the realm of R&B and hip-hop today. And while this strategy may help artists boost each other up the charts, it posed a major problem...
- Research articles 2004-03-28
- Poetry: No Rhyme or Reason
- As Congress creates new rules to prevent Web surfers from drowning in a sea of spam, the literati are crying foul. More than 8 billion pieces of spam are sent worldwide daily, making it one of the most prolific avenues of expression. It seems that, within the deluge of refinancing...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- Grand Canyon safe for atheists?
- If the ever-vigilant American Civil Liberties Union has its way, atheists visiting the Grand Canyon will be spared the supposed trauma of being reminded of God's handiwork in the park's glorious natural setting. National Park officials announced on July 14th that, because of an inquiry from the Arizona Chapter of...
- Research articles 2003-08-25
- Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
- Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By Ramie Targoff. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 162. $17.00.) This short and engaging study sets itself to overturn a governing paradigm both of early modern religious history...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- Made of Dreams
- After spending the past eight years raising her two kids, Annie Lennox returns this week with a passionate new CD called "Bare." She spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jac Chebatoris. Congrats on your first solo tour. How do you prepare yourself? To be physically fit is essential. I'm not obsessed...
- Research articles 2003-06-16
- John Berryman
- John Berryman The life of John Berryman (1914-1972) is at the center of his poetry. Dealing with obsession, tragedy, desire, ironic comedy, and the deep pain of life itself, Berryman's poetry is both brilliant and tormented. With The Dream Songs, which took him 13 years to complete, Berryman...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
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