Books: 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

28 August 2008, 10:25 am

Haruki Murakami's new book on running isn't meant as a training guide; instead, he weaves a memoir of sorts from the lessons he's learned.... read more

Front Page News: (Berkeley Daily Planet)

28 August 2008, 9:58 am

It’s an anarchist “free space.” An anarchist saying speaks of “building a new society on the vacant lots of the old”; in this case, a sanctuary of Berkeley’s left, Berkeley’s seekers and sometimes Berkeley’s outcasts was built on the remains of Sugar’s Den Health Spa and Massage.... read more

News in Brief (Georgetown Record)

28 August 2008, 5:46 am

Georgetown news in brief for the week beginning Aug. 28.... read more

REGIONAL NEWS (Elmira Star-Gazette)

27 August 2008, 11:13 pm

Some Southern Tier and Finger Lakes residents have joined Greenpeace to call on congressional candidates to commit to taking the strongest possible action to end global warming, a local Greenpeace representative said in a news release.... read more

Local writer’s books an important source of information on our past (Asheville Citizen-Times)

27 August 2008, 10:06 pm

Haywood County is indebted to the late W. Clark Medford for his invaluable books, which are among the primary sources of information for historians attempting to glean facts about our past.... read more

Goldman Shares Shrug Off More Bad News (New York Times)

27 August 2008, 1:21 pm

Goldman Sachs may go down in history as the “Teflon bank,” given the way bad news seems to slide off shares in the venerable Wall Street firm.... read more