Art & Leisure

Rosetta Jacobs was a bright and thoughtful child but struggled to express herself. Only after she was a teenager and theatre marquees began carrying her new name - Piper Laurie - did the quiet girl from Detroit begin to find the strength to speak up.

Jamaican members of Toastmasters International - mainly women, if the anniversary turnout was any indication - celebrated the oratory and public speaking organisation's 87th anniversary at The Pantry, New Kingston, recently with the expected fluency in speech.

For many students pursuing tertiary-level education, financial obligations can be daunting, to say the least. This was the plight of Shaneka Annakay Harris, recipient of the RBC Royal Bank Emerging Artist scholarship award.

Grammarian Robert Hartwell Fiske doesn't seem to have much tolerance for people who spell poorly and misuse idioms. But he saves his greatest contempt for the nation's dictionary editors.

Girl, your love is like the leaves that cling to the branches of a tree

All they do is haunt me

Title: 8 Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

Title: Steve Jobs Publishers: Simon & Schuster Author: Walter Isaacson

Her face is magic, magnetic, mesmerising. The camera loves her. I'd read before about certain people whose interaction with film transform them into stellar attractions.

The unusual tickling and prickling

Arthur Wint's place in history was assured when the six-foot, five-inch quarter-miler became the first Jamaican to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1948 Games in Manchester, England.

I like to cook, but why don't you