Great Expectations News

Gilbert Velez, Grove Valley Principal Debbie Straughn and Anna McCoy with the school's Great Expectations award.

The West Virginia winner of the Doodle 4 Google contest, by 13-year-old Alisa P. of Morgantown, was inspired by Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." How easy it is these days for someone to pick up someone else's mobile phone and send a mischievous or threatening text message.

Although the ending has not yet played out in the real world, yet plans to make the life of former newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks into a feature length film have already advanced.

London, May 20 : Although the ending has not yet played out in the real world, yet plans to make the life of former newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks into a feature length film have already advanced.

In One Person , John Irving's new novel, is a little like Twelfth Night squared, and a little like Great Expectations if Pip were the most sexually adventurous boy in Victorian England.

Cannes, May 18: Rocky producer Gene Kirkwood is lined up for Rebekah Brooks: The Movie , with Nicole Kidman suggested for the lead role of the former News of the World journalist.

Examining challenges and best practices in WCM, web experience management, digital asset management, collaboration and social software, and digital marketing.

Fourteen students in a foster youth Great Expectations program earned credentials and 58 students in Danville Community College's Middle College program earned GEDs.

Book lovers the world over mourned the passing of Maurice Sendak, author of such childhood classics as "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen." Remembering him, we've been looking back to a particularly memorable and hilarious interview with Stephen Colbert , in which the two discuss everything from e-books to Sharpie-sniffing. In ... (more)

Juror: Public expects too much from spray program At Tuesday's Webster Parish Police Jury Road Committee Meeting, District 3 juror Daniel Thomas was concerned that citizens understand how the WPPJ insecticide spray program works.

In One Person , John Irving's new novel, is a little like Twelfth Night squared, and a little like Great Expectations if Pip were the most sexually adventurous boy in Victorian England.

U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan with an unannounced visit in the evening on May 1. It is worth noting that Obama's visit to Afghanistan was held on the eve of the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's liquidation.

British-Nigerian singer and songwriter Ola Onabule is someone who does not like to be pigeonholed into a specific style or image.

Jeffey Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE, is the guest speaker for New Canaan Libraryis 4th annual Conversations with Business Leaders, on Sunday, May 6. The program is sponsored by First County Bank.

It's not just at home that Obama has floundered with those who wanted hope and change.

In the lead-up to their earnings -- really, any earnings -- it's essential to take inventory of Wall Street sentiment, something the media rarely does.