Sports shorts Sports shorts By Chas Walker
Red Sox and Yankees split series Baseball fans got a close look at the race for the American League East pennant over the past several days, as the Boston Red Sox squared off with the New York Yankees in a four-game series.
Harry Potter and the irresistable read
Review I admit it – I was lured in by the hype. I can be honest about that, that a woman with a college background in critical literary theory, who has done extensive critical writing on the works of Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, William B. Yeats and Salman Rushdie, was drawn to the new Harry Potter book like a moth to a flame.
Sports shorts
Can LeBron James save Cleveland? / Spurred to victory
Whats a little grease?
Poetry What’s a little grease? by Tony Pecinovsky
Hanns Eisler: composer as revolutionary
The cultural worker: “How necessary music is and how important it can be in the greatest struggles for a new world” – Hanns Eisler
Anne Feeney tours Texas
Every Spring, Texas is favored by a whirlwind tour by folk and labor singer Anne Feeney. She travels by car through the state, north to south, to the famous Kerrville Folk Festival. Coming and going, she hits the major cities for impromptu concerts. No venue is too large or small.
The Men of Watergate
My husband was a supporter of the World for practically all his life. He died Nov. 9, 1999. He wrote poetry. While going through our files, I came across this poem, one I did not know. As I read it, it occurred to me that he was saying something 30 years ago that could be applied to our American scene today. – Charlotte Podolner
4th of July reading: Revolutionary women
Book Review Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution, by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer, Atria Books, 271 pp., $24
High court upholds affirmative action
WASHINGTON – The grassroots movement that marched and rallied in defense of affirmative action over the last decade hailed the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision, June 23, upholding race-conscious admissions programs at the University of Michigan (U-M) Law School. Wade Henderson, executive secretary of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), called it “a great victory for America.”
National Clips
SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Feed the hungry or the corporations? / BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Hungry? Fill out a 23-page form / HOPKINTON, Mass.: Cheney catches heat from the people / UPPER ST. CLAIR, Penn.: Homes and water before profits / McARTHUR, Ohio: Federal budget slashes youth jobs
