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...summer, when we review what we've learned since June. Or the sacred right to make ice cream from the first snowfall and eat it for breakfast. Some traditions are set by Scripture or laced with superstition; others are accidents elevated into ceremony, habits in party clothes. A Woody Allen character viewed tradition as "the illusion of permanence," but I think that's exactly wrong; our traditions are a ballast against inventions and innovations that blow us faster into a future we have not prepared for. (See TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more...
...category.” Although Nolan requested more time to study the data presented by the consultants—an idea that initially was supported by some other members—the committee ultimately agreed to pass the recommendations as presented after being urged to do so by Barbara Allen, the district’s human resources director. Allen said that the best course of action would be to follow the set time line, especially coming into the holiday season. “I’d hate to see us get trapped in the minutia and numbers...
...again, not knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims"--even to refute such a notion-- is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have been more accurate and thoughtful to have said that some Jews found a way to fight back, and did. Richard Allen Cohen, CHICAGO...
...LILY ALLEN takes temporary hiatus from boozing. At least until that New Year's party...
...senior inductees are Kelly A. Alverson, Kathryn S. Austin, Joanna R. Binney, Andrew K. Chan, Charles Chen, Allen Cheng, Patrick R. Chesnut, Lin Cong, David P. Daniels, Thomas B.S. Dolinger, Connemara Doran, Philippa G. Eccles, Christine A. Eckhardt, Hannah K. Frank, Roger R. Fu, Jamie R. Fuld, James E. Goldschmidt, Ruwan Gunaratne, Kyle Q. Haddad-Fonda, Mitchell C. Hunter, Jean A. Junior, Jesse M. Kaplan, Russell P. Kelley, Christopher B. Lacaria, Nadira Lalji, Alice N. Lee, John D. Lesieutre, Tracy Li, Eric I. Lu, Maxwell S. Mishkin, Charles G. Nathanson, Garrett G.D. Nelson, Won H. Park, Julia L. Renaud, Charles...