News - Powered by Yahoo News'Song of Achilles': The love story behind Homer's epic tale of wa
Madeline Miller's debut novel "The Song of Achilles" is a skillful retelling of the Homeric story "the Iliad" as a personal tale narrated by Achilles' beloved, Patroclus.
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:05:01 -0700 -
ASP tackles Troilus and Cressid
Farewell romance "All's false in love and war" might be a maxim for Troilus and Cressida. TROJAN HORESPOWER This Actors' Shakespeare Project production cracks the Homeric myth of Troilus and Cressida like an egg, revealing its cynical innards. "All's false in love and war" might be a maxim for Troilus and Cressida (presented by Actors' Shakespeare Project at the Modern Theatre through May 20 ...
Tue, 01 May 2012 14:35:04 -0700 -
One man's cry for freedom disappears into a black pi
A lone campaigner has fought for justice for over nine years, writes Michael West .
Fri, 04 May 2012 07:07:56 -0700 -
Mitt, The Incidental Candidat
WASHINGTON -- He barely speaks in his own first general-election ad. On the top floor of his Boston campaign headquarters, the most visible poster is one of his dad's.
Sat, 19 May 2012 21:40:18 -0700 -
Solar quiet spell like the one now looming cooled climate in the pas
Vast fireball as big as a million Earths does affect us German researchers say they have found solid evidence that a past "solar minimum" period of prolonged low solar activity ? of the sort which some hefty physicists believe will commence within a few years ? significantly cooled the climate. The research flies counter to theories offered by carbon-alarmist climate scientists, who contend that ...
Tue, 08 May 2012 09:09:59 -0700 -
ASIC's death by a thousand cut
Over the past nine years, 800 million people have been born into the world, YouTube and Facebook were invented and the Iraq War passed into history, but Will Matthews, an actuary from East Brighton in Melbourne, is still waiting for his freedom of information request to be processed.
Fri, 04 May 2012 18:36:07 -0700 -
Solar minimum may lead to 'abrupt' climatic condition
Washington, May 7 (ANI): An abrupt cooling in Europe along with an increase in humidity and especially in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago, researchers say.
Sun, 06 May 2012 21:50:26 -0700 -
French poll rematch stage
The champions of the French far-right and far-left in the presidential elections, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon, are to go head to head again in next month?s parliamentary vote.
Sat, 12 May 2012 15:57:51 -0700 -
Marine Le Pen challenged on home tur
A left-wing leader has announced that he will challenge far-right leader Marine Le Pen's seat in France's upcoming parliamentary polls. They will decide the limits to newly elected President Hollande's power.
Sat, 12 May 2012 11:58:02 -0700 -
Climatic effects of a solar minimum: Grand solar minimum and climate response recorded for first time in same climate ..
Maar lake sediments reveal a grand solar minimum and the climate response recorded for the first time in the same climate archive highlights the need for a more differentiated approach to solar radiation.
Sun, 06 May 2012 14:26:22 -0700 -