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This is a regular column featuring original fiction by and for high school students, provided by Figment.com, an online community writing site for young people.
Lindsey Grant.
I barely recognized her, but she wasn't washed up; not quite, not completely. The scuffs on her shoes were telling, but she wasn't nearly as far gone as the rest of the girls that came to see Roger.
â??Obsessive compulsive,â?쳌 he said with a flourish.
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Settlers who went too far - even for Netanyahu
there is absolutely nothing legal about it. Forget about international law, which most democratic governments believe is violated by all Jewish settlement in occupied territory.
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What roles can art and activism play in a post-Fordist society of the spectacle? Can activist art effect real change? Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization asks these and other pressing questions facing contemporary activist art, through case studies by established artists and filmmakers as well as emerging voices.
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Music -- can words really describe that feeling we get when we listen to it? Not really, but what exactly makes "good music?" Is it the type or the singer or something other element? Whatever it is, we all know it has a great effect on us. However, is a certain type of music better than another? That is exactly where the debate comes in.
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Burning Man officials announced Friday that demand for tickets to the 2012 festival far exceeded the amount available, and many will be denied their requests when the results of the event's first-ever lottery system are announced next week.
"Turns out, people are VERY EAGER to go to Burning Man this year," organizers wrote in the official Jack Rabbit Speaks newsletter. So much so, in fact, that they found creative ways to increase their odds of getting tickets in the Main Sale.
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And if you've ever been to a bar, you won't be too surprised.
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Today marks the would-be 256th birthday of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Throughout his life, Mozart created more than 600 classical pieces.
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Pacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them.
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Now in its eighth and final season, "Desperate Housewives" is preparing to say goodbye to Wisteria Lane forever. But how does the cast want things to end for their characters? And, more importantly, what are they going to take from the set when the show wraps?
I caught up with "Desperate Housewives" stars Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross, Vanessa Williams, Doug Savant and Ricardo Antonio Chavira to find out just that.
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You may have seen Scarlett Johansson impersonate her onscreen; now you can see her in the flesh, or, should we say, in the oil: Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With A Pearl Earring” will come to the De Young Museum in San Francisco next January, the first stop on a three-venue American tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, the Hague. The Dutch museum is sending 35 paintings on a two-year tour, announced Friday, first to the United States, then to two museums in Japan, while it undergoes renovations.
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