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...Carols eventually spread to the United States, where it became particularly popular in mainline Protestant churches. No similar format for Christmas Day ever took hold. Some Evangelical churches that personalize the figure of Jesus may also hold services on Christmas Day, but are a blend of traditional worship and birthday celebration, with songs like "Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus" and even birthday cake...
...oldest friend, whose daughter has an August birthday, holds her party at the local amusement park. The kids get bracelets that let them go on all the rides. They quickly outgrew the little trains but could ride the bumper cars; then they outgrew those but could take on the climbing wall. Now they prefer the roller-skating rink, where boys and girls hold hands. As with the pencil lines on the kitchen wall, we've watched them grow through their small rituals. If ambition and opportunity spin us off in every direction, traditions reel us back to where we came...
...Free Rides, Kid" [Nov. 24]. I think the issue goes way beyond the privileged and their children. Today's children grow up in a material world; they are being pampered regardless of their parents' income. Most children don't even have to wait anxiously for Christmas or their birthday to be showered with often senseless gifts. Walking into my children's room makes me wonder what to get my 3-year-old for Christmas. It's no wonder the work ethic suffers somewhere down the line. Where are the classes for the not-so-privileged child? Can I sign...
Wednesday was Rod Blagojevich's 52nd birthday, but you can bet it was not a happy one. After having been charged by federal authorities with trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat that President-elect Barack Obama vacated, the Illinois governor spent most of the day hidden from view inside the state office building in downtown Chicago. The few allies he had left have vanished. And anyone who might have been among the unnamed Senate candidates in the detailed charges against Blagojevich have been busy putting distance between the governor and themselves. Among those were Congressman Jesse Jackson...
...build his career because of the strength of Jesse Sr.'s support there. Nevertheless, the younger man has emphasized and established his own bona fides in politics and in activism in the African-American community. In the 1980s, he loudly opposed South Africa's apartheid regime, spending his 21st birthday in a Washington jail cell after participating in protests outside South Africa's embassy in that city. By 1995, he was ready for his first major step in national politics. He was immediately successful. He won his first bid for a congressional seat and became the Representative of the largely...