01/06/2009
Eartha Kitt’s Philippine connection (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Once upon a time, in the ancient monastery of Montserrat, on a mountain outside Barcelona, my reflections on things religious were jolted when one of the few monks who spoke English sought me out and invited me for coffee in his cell at merienda time.
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01/06/2009
Cassidy's Any Day Now Launches Manhattan Theatre Source's InGenius Series Jan. 6 (Playbill)
Manhattan Theatre Source's InGenius Series, featuring works by Joan Tewkesbury, David Caudle, Nat Cassidy, Montserrat Mendez and Richard Vetere, begins Jan. 6.
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01/02/2009
Montserrat: this Caribbean island is rising from the ashes. (Belfast Telegraph)
'Montserrat? An island in the Caribbean? Are you sure?" What an ignorant question and one that was testing the patience of the new man in my life, Dean, who was, yes, sure that he knew where his own parents had been born.
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01/04/2009
Beverly, Salem see census estimates raised (Boston Globe)
The US Census Bureau has increased its 2007 population estimates for Beverly and Salem by about 800 residents combined as a result of successful challenges by the two cities.
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01/02/2009
Legendary Olympic recording studio to burn out (Independent)
Olympic Studios in Barnes, West London, holds a special place in my heart. It's the first recording studio I visited in the late Seventies, only to find glam-rockers Slade – at a low career ebb – having a blazing row. It's where the Rolling Stones drifted into psychedelia in 1967 with their half-baked concept album Their Satanic Majesties Request, before going back to basics and staking their ...
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12/27/2008
Montserrat volcano hurls lava, rocks, ash (Miami Herald)
A volcano on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat has resumed its rumbling and hurled rocks and lava toward the abandoned capital.
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12/29/2008
Spanish teacher's students to teach Latino community (The Champaign News-Gazette)
CHAMPAIGN – When Montserrat Oliveras-Heras teaches Spanish at Parkland College, she wants to create as many opportunities for her students to speak the language as possible. But the conversations in the classroom can be pretty artificial. She wanted to have her students talk with Latinos living in the community, in a way that would benefit both groups. So next fall, one of her Spanish ...
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12/31/2008
New Year's Honours (ITV.com)
See strict 0001 GMT Wednesday December 31 embargo. KNIGHTS BACHELOR Professor Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse. For services to Education. (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Professor David Nicholas Cannadine.
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12/31/2008
Our Two Penneth (4thegame.com)
Welcome to Our Two Penneth, the blog that brings you all the best and all the worst from the footballing world, every day... TAKE TAT! - Tomorrow ushers in the start of a new year.
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12/31/2008
New Year Honours list (Daily Telegraph)
Professor Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse. For services to Education. (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Professor David Nicholas Cannadine. Formerly Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Professor, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. For services to Scholarship.
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