Ultimos Posts 1. 15/09/2006 15:24 - September 15: Died Oriana Falacci Oriana Fallaci (June 29, 1929 ? September 15, 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. An antifascist partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. She died in her native Florence, Italy. She was 77 years old and had been suffering from breast cancer for some 15 years. She was called "our most celebrated female writer" b... 2. 19/06/2006 17:21 - James Kelly -- Troubled Son of Kerry Mists Fall Was it all the dubious nights we shared tumbling into the shallow specks to see our hallowed heroes fall that brought us to a place where we fed on all who fed on us. 2004 North Kerry Through these lost fields I work the heart carts of the dark, with mixed emotions clear old stones and hear forever fenian tones. Where all my hills chart grief, castrated redemption is chief, to... 3. 26/05/2006 15:31 - "Freegans" forage for food in bins Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Ross and Ash are about to dig in to a meal of chicken rogan josh, king prawn makhani and rice, chicken balti and naan bread followed by pineapple, strawberries and grapes for dessert. All of which came out of a bin. "Everything I eat comes from dumpsters," Ash says. "For me it's a logical lifestyle choice. It's such a natural thing to use up that was... 4. 20/05/2006 20:06 - The Da Vinci Code as a work of literature Peter Costello Dan Brown's thriller The Da Vinci Code is something of an enigma. Though most scholars agree that the story is total nonsense, and badly written nonsense at that, it has achieved a world-wide sale of nearly 50 million copies and rising. By what tricks of the literary trade has Dan Brown imposed his deceptive notions on so many people? It is worth looking at just how ... 5. 17/05/2006 12:48 - Borges's Buenos Aires: A City Populated by a Native Son's Imagination By LARRY ROHTER The taxi advanced up Avenida Garay and came to a stop a couple of blocks short of the Plaza Constitución. The corner seemed familiar though I knew I had never been there before, and when I saw the sign for Calle Tacuarí, it came to me: in his story "The Aleph," Jorge Luis Borges had chosen a cellar in one of the anonymous buildings on this anonymous street as the lo... |
