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• Books | In Chicago midfields, Hemon discovers transcendental soccer nation

  
  The Global Game — Authority: 92
  Nov 30 | As theological statements go, the title of Aleksandar Hemon s essay in the current Granta , "If God Existed, Hed Be a Solid Midfielder," would not impress the plethora of seminarians in Hemons adopted home, Chicago. Nevertheless, for the acclaimed writer from Sarajevo, absence of soccer means spiritual ...
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• Doves, the holy spirit and angels

  
  Angels on Your Shoulder — Authority: 126
  Aloha, Greatideas come into the world quietly as doves. Perhaps then, if we listenattentively, we shall hear among the uproar of empires and nations a faintfluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Albert Camus This is one of my favorite quotes. When I first read this quote I knew the greatestidea ...
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• Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music

  
  Kottu — Authority: 164
  Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music When Im dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. -Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury emerged as a popular singer when Elvis, Mick Jagger, Ian Gillan, John Lennon, Barry Gibb, Mike Love etc dominated the music world. When he ...
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• ANNIE KEVANS ‘SHIP OF FOOLS’ at FAS LONDON Private View Thursday 26th November

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 484
  Kevans takes the allegory ‘Ship of Fools’ as the title for her latest series of paintings which addresses her interest in the changing perception of madness and its relationship with societal notions of success and achievement.Towards the end of the Middle Ages, European authorities would deal with their mad ...
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• Sarkozy Wants to Rebury Camus in the Panthéon: Non, non or oui, oui?

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 154
  French president Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested that in honour of the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus , the Algerian born author’s remains should be moved into the Panthéon where the heroes of France are traditionally buried. But left wing academics and intellectuals are a little piqued at ...
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• Sarkozy’s Bid to Move Camus’ Ashes Stirs Controversy

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 709
  A French writer could do a lot worse than be buried alongside the likes of Émile Zola, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo, but some compatriots of philosopher Albert Camus, as well as his son, Jean, are none too pleased with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to relocate Camus’ ashes to the celebrated ...
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• Albert Camus in Grave Condition, France Holds Its Breath

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 517
  The author at rest. Albert Camus is in the midst of a post-existential crisis. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wants to transfer the remains of the writer and Nobel-laureate to the Panthéon , the Paris monument to some of the great men and women of France and one of the nations most hallowed burial ...
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• Does Albert Camus belong in the Pantheon?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The problem has less to do with Camus grandeur than with the tactics of Nicolas Sarkozy says Henry Samuel.
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• Nicolas Sarkozy provokes French left by honouring Albert Camus

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Anti-intellectual leader accused of point-scoring • Authors admirers wary of posthumous recognition French intellectuals have heaped scorn on a proposal by Nicolas Sarkozy to bestow the countrys greatest posthumous honour upon the writer Albert Camus, accusing the rightwing president of trying to cash in on ...
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• Nicolas Sarkozy rebuffed in plan to move Albert Camus

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  President Nicolas Sarkozys rocky relationship with Frances literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writers son amid claims of political opportunism.
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• Thierry Henry and football philosophy | Agnès Poirier

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Henrys handball in a World Cup game against Ireland has caused an existential crisis in France. What would Camus do? La main de Dieu or la main du diable? After Zidanes headbutt, we now have Henrys hand . On Wednesday evening, judging from the noise on the streets of Paris, cars horns honking as though we had won ...
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• Can Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Make You an Intellectually Fulfilled Nihilist?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  Richard Dawkins has famously said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has made him, not just an atheist, but “an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” In other words, by mixing a scientific theory with an ideology, Dawkins has found that his strict naturalism is, as it were, bolstered by the idea of ...
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• Wilfred Owen’s “Futility”

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  One of Wilfred Owen’s great poems is titled “Futility” (1918). It begins with a commander of men at war directing a couple of his soldiers to move into the sun the body of a recently dead comrade: Move him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke ...
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• A novel approach to politics

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 131
  Back to the Socialist Standard . There are long term plans to digitise every issue of the Socialist Standard going back to September 1904, in order that they can be made available online for anyone and everyone to read but, in the meantime, the work of posting articles of interest from old Socialist Standards ...
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• Clip Job: Five Songs About Books

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 144
  To judge by their tightly wound, country-tinged pop songs,  Olivia Mancini and the Mates aren’t shorting their craft. But even the most polished band needs its R&R, and this local act—featuring two former members of Washington Social Club— loves to curl up with a good book. That’s the impression, at ...
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• Autumn Leaves: Colorful Reminders

  
  Here We Are...with Luci — Authority: 116
  Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus Savor the next thirty-nine days of autumn...Enjoy the orange, burgundy, and yellow leaves as they delicately swirl past your window, breathe the fresh air, bite into a crisp apple, plant your mums. Today, my friend, RayDeen, posted a note on her ...
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• 2010 will be a great spectacle even for the arty farty types

  
  Common Dialogue — Authority: 118
  South African sculptor Keith Calders Goalie bronze - one of eleven in his Footballer range FOOTBALL and art seem something of a misnomer, but for many the game of billions is the greatest art form of them all. While Picasso, arguably the greatest painter that ever lived, used brush strokes to bring his masterpieces ...
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• November 7 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  On November 7: 1492 The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim , Alsace . 1655 The London Gazette , the oldest surviving journal , was first published. 1728   Captain James Cook , British naval officer, ...
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• Awatsihu, Philippe Forget’s New Opera

  
  An Irish Bromance — Authority: 142
  Philippe Forget is in rehearsals with his new Opéra, Awatsihu. It will première 12 November in Bron , near Lyon, France. And continue it’s run around Lyon, see below.. AWATSIHU, or how birds find their singing is an opera by Philippe Forget bathed in a pictorial world of Stephen Yver and directed by ...
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• Yesterday’s news

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 130
  Sometimes when I am emotionally drained or intellectually exhausted from tedious work, I’ll pick up a random copy from my stack of old New Yorkers, leaf through them back to front, reading the cartoons and the poems and sometimes a few pages of an article that catches my eye. Sometimes the whole article.These back ...
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