The Jeremy Warner essay: days of turmoil
For a good laugh, take a look at the YouTube footage in which Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, is caught unawares on camera apparently assuring his Portuguese counterpart, Vitor Gaspar, ...

Essay winners talk of struggle to give care, get care with cost in mind
Four winners have been selected in the Cost of Care essay contest aimed at promoting awareness among patients and providers about how much health care costs. Dr. Neel Shah, director of Cost of Care, said in an e-mail that the contest received more than 100 entries. Among the winners, each of whom won $1,000, was Dr. Andrew Schutzbank, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who ...

DARE essay winners
MT. VERNON — County students who participate in Drug Abuse Resistance Education graduated from the program on Wednesday, with six students — one from each of the grade schools where DARE was taught — winning top honors from their essay projects.

Essay by Edward Mast - Gaza CPDS Non-Fiction
The Center for Political and Development Studies (CPDS) organised a contest a year ago on Prisoners and Nakba and recieved these submissions. [….] They are sent to Gaza.scoop.ps exclusively.

Local Boy Wins Essay Contest and $10,000 for School Library
Out of 59,000 entries, a local fifth grader emerged number one winning a national essay contest.

Fabulous Mogambo Essay (FME)
I recently had a revelation of sorts, distilled from my merely noticing what happens when passing by my neighbors, out on their stupid lawns, playing with their stupid kids, or washing their stupid cars, or just doing something stupid.

Sweepstakes Advantage Member Takes Home $10,000 Worth of Prizes from Cisco Linksys Contest
A Sweepstakes Advantage member was chosen as the grand winner of the Cisco Linksys Geek Dad Contest, taking home $10,000 worth of Best Buy gift cards after his essay entry received the most votes from readers.(PRWEB) April 27, 2012 A member of Sweepstakes Advantage did not fail to awe his readers as he told the story of how the advent of technology has become a tradition to his family in the ...

The 6th Floor Blog: Go Buy the 200th Issue of The Paris Review
Why you should not miss the current issues of The Paris Review and The Missouri Review.

State exam asks N.J. 3rd graders to write essay on secret they had kept
The Department of Education would not provide the exact wording of the question because some students are still being tested

Google it? Nah, these days kids ask book authors to do their homework
When a Grade 11 student was running out of time to finish his book project, he sent a plea to that book’s author