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South Windsor Haiti School
South Windsor High SchoolHaiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 2010, about 88% of their rural population was at poverty level after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck. Hundreds of thousands were killed and, as a result of the tragedy, people from all over the...Tags: Port-au-Prince (Haiti), French Literature, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Natural Disasters, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Dutch author Bakker wins Booktrust foreign fiction prize
ReutersLONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker has won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize awarded by Britain's Booktrust charity for "The Detour", a tale of infidelity, exile and isolation. Bakker will share the 10,000 pound ($15,200)...Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, United Kingdom
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Cannes Film Review: 'The Last Days on Mars'
VarietyConsiderable talent and resources have clearly been marshaled in service of "The Last Days on Mars," which, in achieving a reasonably plausible low-budget vision of the future, announces itself as a first feature of considerable ambition for Irish...Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program, NASA, Olivia Williams, Arts and Culture, Romola Garai
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Novels let you take your time in different genres
Bristol Herald Courier, Va.Eric Young takes us on a whirlwind of time-travel in his new novel, "The Unreconciled" (Ambassador International, $16.99). The 509-page book takes place in 2084 and follows how the ruthless Caliph rules America after the Christian Holocaust....Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Bristol (Bristol, Virginia), Travel, Authors, New York City
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IRS probe ignored most influential groups
IRS probe ignored most influential groups KEN THOMAS,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. The nation's tax agency has admitted to...
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Panel Discussion with Three Contemporary Novelists at R.J. Julia on May 23
M.J. Rose writes cool, lush modern supernaturally tinged romances, including the Reincarnationist series. M.J. Rose books are the epitome of summertime leisure reading, at the smarter beaches. Her latest novel, Seduction, has roots in real life, and stars...
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Author Pat Conroy signs on as editor at large at University of South Carolina Press's Story River Books series
The Island Packet OnlineAuthor Pat Conroy's roots run deep in South Carolina. Growing up a military brat, he finally settled in the Lowcountry. He's written about the charms of Charleston, the isolation of Daufuskie Island, the righteousness of The Citadel. South Carolina has...Tags: Authors, Book, Arts and Culture
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'Senna' Director Asif Kapadia to Direct Love Story 'Ali and Nino'
ReutersMay 20 (TheWrap.com) - "Senna" director Asif Kapadia has signed on to direct "Ali and Nino," which Oscar winner Christopher Hampton is adapting from Kurban Said's pre-World War Two bestselling romance novel. PeaPie Films founder Kris Thykier will...Tags: Senna (movie), Arts and Culture
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China trying to manage exposure of corruption online
ReutersBy Terril Yue Jones BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) - China's Internet is brimming with disclosures of officials collecting bribes, homes and luxury accessories as casually as they do mistresses. But while the government tolerates such anti-corruption...Tags: Corruption, China, Computer Networking and Internet, Wen Jiabao, Brookings Institution
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EDITORIAL: County schools rise to a linguistic challenge; Finding old words
The Capital, Annapolis, Md.Just as the international supremacy of the dollar let Americans be spendthrift, the international supremacy of English made Americans lazy about learning other tongues. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted in 2010 that only 18 percent of...Tags: Students, The Washington Post, Teaching and Learning, Arne Duncan, Language
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From Star Wars to comics to gamers, Florida has events to satisfy your inner nerd
Orlando SentinelFlorida's got fanboy down. Where else can you count on an annual Wookie sighting? Disney's Star Wars Weekends, though, going on from May 17 to June 9 at Disney's Hollywood Studios, is just one of Florida's great offerings for movies, TV, comics and...Tags: Peter Mayhew, Tom Kane, Port Canaveral, True Blood (tv program), Auction Service
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Reuters World News Highlights 1800 GMT May 20
ReutersTOP STORIES ----------- AMMAN/BEIRUT - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian...Tags: China, Politics, Egypt, Explosions, Iran
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