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Alaska town votes to change its name to Alaska Native name

Edit Springfield News-Sun 15 Oct 2016
Regaining our traditional names is just one step towards that healing!" ... Last year, the Obama administration decided to bestow the traditional Alaska Native to North America's tallest mountain, from Mount McKinley to its Denali, an Athabascan word meaning "the high one." ... With the name change, the town also is seeking state approval to change it stop signs to the Inupiat word....

‘Superstition, religious hatred on the rise’

Edit The Hindu 15 Oct 2016
Regrettable words are being used to attack political adversaries, former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi lamented here on Friday ... Gandhi noted that one must not stress on their differences just to highlight their affinity ... Use of regrettable words to describe the political opponents has vitiated the political atmosphere of the day and it is ......

Can lyrics be as important as poetry?

Edit The Hindu 15 Oct 2016
Despite its diversity, this vast oeuvre was decidedly Dylan, in words and in music ... And they ignore the fact that popular music and the written word split branches a couple of centuries ago, and occupy two different ecosystems ... Instead, it’s an appropriation of a pop songwriter into the literary world, as one of their own, in what can be read as a desperate grab for cultural relevance....

Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice killed in B.C. plane crash

Edit Toronto Sun 15 Oct 2016
Postmedia is still awaiting word from Prentice's family and government officials on full details of the tragedy. On Friday morning, Premier Rachel Notley abruptly cancelled an event in Red Deer as word of the deaths spread ... In a statement released by Prentice's family Friday afternoon, his loved one expressed profound shock at losing not one but two family members ... “Jim was never one to pass the buck....

These teachers want their students to know they're important

Edit WPTV 15 Oct 2016
Teachers at Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Missouri, told their students kind words, and it sparked positivity ... The teachers each recognized the influence of one of the students in their classes....

The tedious Kevin Durant-Russell Westbrook hyper-analysis tells us more about the analysts than the two players

Edit The Mercury News 15 Oct 2016
-One quick caveat. The Durant-Westbrook relationship is an interesting one, and there is a good chance that I might write about it or ask questions about it in the coming weeks, just like everybody else has done and will do for quite some time ... words and Westbrook’s reaction to Durant’s words… and you get the point here....

Police crack Medchal girl murder mystery

Edit The Hindu 15 Oct 2016
A day after mysterious murder of an 8-year-old in Yellampet village, the Medchal police zeroed in on the culprits, one of whom is suspected to be a minor ... Word also got around that three people were detained by the cops....

Please stop saying my adopted daughter is ‘lucky’

Edit The Independent 15 Oct 2016
We attached a photo of her wearing a bright red dress covered in bunny rabbits, a gift from one of her grandmothers....

Burbank Unified holds new logo contest

Edit The Los Angeles Times 15 Oct 2016
... 20 years in favor of a new one to be drawn up by a student or community member....

Youth football league responds to claim of racial slur heard after players knelt for national anthem

Edit WPXI 15 Oct 2016
And out of nowhere you hear, ‘If the little N-word want to take a knee, they shouldn't be able to play." ... "Players told me, they say, ‘Coach, they're calling us the N-word,’” Burkley said ... He said his players’ parents at one point tried to get food at the concession stand and were turned away....

As the viaduct readies for renewal, another piece of old Philadelphia vanishes

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 15 Oct 2016
How word of mouth - word of Instagram, now - had infused this neglected, beautiful place with energy ... They took wedding photos on the train tracks ... ....

A genius in Sin City: Dylan celebrates his Nobel Prize, sort of, with an exuberant Vegas gig

Edit The Miami Herald 15 Oct 2016
And fans stood again when he finished his opener, "Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35," one of several classics from the 1960s that he performed along with "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Highway 61 Revisited" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." ... But it's Bob Dylan singing his own words." ... But then, those particular words aren't really his....

Hillary guiding global elite against working class: Donald Trump

Edit The Times of India 15 Oct 2016
"Take a look, you take a look, look at her, look at her words -you tell me what you think ... Journalists on the Trump campaign beat have reported aggressive behaviour and bullying, including shouts of "lock them up!" In one instance, a reporter for CNN, which is also in the Trump crosshairs, reported returning to a table reserved for the press at a rally to find a sign bearing a swastika and the word "MEDIA " scrawled on it....
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