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Bashar Assad, 2000 News

34, Syrian ophthalmologist, was thrust into the international spotlight after his father, Syrian president Hafez Assad, died of a heart attack in June. Hafez Assad had been grooming his soft…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: XXVI ("Two swimmers")

by EmilyDickinsonDyingThe ChariotXXVI Two swimmers wrestled on the spar Until the morning sun, When one turned smiling to the land. O God, the other one! The stray ships passing spied a…

1. Rage Against The Machine

The Battle of Los AngelesEpic It may be too early to predict, but this pulverizing mix of hard rock and rap, loaded with political conviction, could be setting the stage for the sound of the…

Aesop's Fables: The Goat and the Vine

by Aesop The Horse and His RiderThe Two PotsThe Goat and the Vine A Goat was straying in a vineyard, and began to browse on the tender shoots of a Vine which bore several fine bunches of…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Garden

The GardenMany things the garden shows, And pleased I stray From tree to tree Watching the white pear-bloom, Bee-infested quince or plum. I could walk days, years, away Till the slow ripening…

The Devil's Dictionary: Humorist

by Ambrose Bierce HUMANITYHURRICANEHUMORIST -n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-…

Aesop's Fables: The Goatherd and the Goat

by Aesop The Athenian and the ThebanThe Sheep and the DogThe Goatherd and the Goat A Goatherd was one day gathering his flock to return to the fold, when one of his goats strayed and…

The Mower to the Glo-Worms

The Mower to the Glo-Worms Ye living Lamps, by whose dear light The Nightingale does sit so late, And studying all the Summer-night, Her matchless Songs does meditate; Ye Country Comets,…

Amy Lowell: Mirage

MirageHow is it that, being gone, you fill my days, And all the long nights are made glad by thee? No loneliness is this, nor misery, But great content that these should be the ways Whereby…