>UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari has announced he will meet detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, before concluding his visit to Burma the same day, according to the diplomats. Gambari announced the planned meeting Wednesday to diplomats in the capital Naypyidaw, where he has been holding talks with senior Burmese officials. His…

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> Wonderful song, wonderful singer. DETROIT OR BUFFALOWritten by Barbara Keith People expect you to fallHit that same old wallReally they don’t wanna help at allThey talk behind your back todayThey shake their heads and sayGee I always knew that the girl would come to no good anyway God knows everybody’s gotta go sometimeAnd I’m…

> We got the last tickets to go see Sinead O’Connor next month. This is her first song that hit the hitparade. I am speechless.

>l(a leaffa ll s)onel iness I came across this beautiful poem by e.e. cummings about loneliness. It took some time to see what it says but it is totally moving and beautiful. Or at least that is what I think……

>The songstresses who inspire Alison Moyet The former Yazoo frontwoman returns later this month with her seventh solo album, The Turn. Here, she tells us about some of the women who have influenced her Monday October 8, 2007Guardian UnlimitedMelanie Safka Safka’s voice is often described as fragile and vulnerable, but it has a clear, open-throated…

> When fun was fun.

> So for the last years I have been writing a story about a girl living in Amsterdam.She meets another girl and what happens is what happens all over the world.They fall in lovethere are obstacleswill they pass these and how just a love story, a simple novellafunnysexyraunchy bizarre Last Friday I printed itthought of…

> As humans we make mistakes. Daisaku Ikeda of the SGI said this about mistakes; As long as we are human, we are bound to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What distinguishes a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a dishonest one, however, is whether…

>From the land of my mother: By Stephen RegenoldUpdated: 4:53 p.m. ET Oct. 1, 2007 Deep in the jungles of Suriname, on a wild bend of the Courantyne River, Larry Dahlberg hooked a literal monster beneath his boat. “It hit like a freight train — WHAM! — and I pulled for all my life,” said…