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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: Natural Disasters, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Haiti Earthquake (2010), Literature
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Cannes Film Review: 'Zulu'
VarietyThe unhealed wounds of post-apartheid South Africa get a brutal but superficial once-over in Jerome Salle's savagely violent cop thriller "Zulu." Toplining Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker as two detectives uniquely scarred by their nation's cruel racial...Tags: Human Interest, Entertainment, Africa, South Africa, Cape Town (South Africa)
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First edition of 'Great Gatsby' to be sold at auction
ReutersNEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - A first edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby," will be up for sale next month and could fetch up to $150,000, Sotheby's said on Thursday. The book, which once belonged to the critic and...Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Authors
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At last, we get Tolkien's take on King Arthur
McClatchy Washington Bureau"The Fall of Arthur" by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, NY (233 pages, $25) When J. R. R. Tolkien takes on the legendary King Arthur, you can expect something special. Unpublished until now, the poem "The...Tags: Poetry, Susan Cooper, University of Oxford, Literature, England
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"Promiscuous minds" gather for Britain's Hay Festival
ReutersBy Nigel Stephenson LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in literature, science and politics will pitch up to a small British town over the next week for a clan gathering of the world's most "promiscuous minds". The 26th Hay Festival...Tags: Government, Google Inc., Music Industry, Entertainment, Australia
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Graphic sex in applauded lesbian love story gets Cannes buzzing
Reuters* Critics laud Kechiche's film of raw emotion, lesbian sex * Father-son road trip is Payne's second try for top prize By Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 23 (Reuters) - An intimate love story between two young women received rave reviews from critics at the...Tags: Fiction, Adele (music artist), Bruce Dern, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment
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Short story writer Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Intl fiction prize
ReutersBy Paul Casciato LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis - who has only...Tags: Fiction, Chinua Achebe, Jonathan Franzen, Literature, England
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Cannes Film Review: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color'
Variety"I have infinite tenderness for you," one woman tells another in "Blue Is the Warmest Color," and it's a sentiment that also describes director Abdellatif Kechiche's attitude toward his characters in this searingly intimate, daringly attenuated portrait...Tags: Fiction, Human Interest, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Short story writer Lydia Davis wins major fiction prize
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis, a professor of creative writing at the...Tags: Fiction, Chinua Achebe, Jonathan Franzen, Literature, England
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Tunisia announces first death from new coronavirus
ReutersTunis (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from new coronavirus, a strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year, after a visit to Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The man, a diabetic, died in hospital in the...Tags: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Viral Diseases and Infections, Tunisia, Medical Procedures and Tests, Saudi Arabia
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Cannes: The Weinstein Company Circles U.S. Rights to 'Spivet' (EXCLUSIVE)
VarietyThe Weinstein Company is in advanced negotiations to acquire all U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 3D adventure pic "The Young and Prodigious Spivet," in what will be one of the highest-profile deals inked at Cannes. Adapted from Reif Larsen's novel by...Tags: Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, Washington, DC, Amelie (movie), Literature
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Cannes: The Weinstein Co. Nearing Deal for 'The Young and Prodigious Spivet'
ReutersMay 21 (TheWrap.com) - The Weinstein Company is closing in on U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 3D adventure movie "The Young and Prodigious Spivet," which is one of the hottest available titles at Cannes. A spokesperson for TWC didn't immediately...Tags: The Weinstein Company
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