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...kids free and marathoners run wild to celebrate Patriots’ Day every April. To explore one Patriots’ Day tradition of battle reenactments, FM ventured back in time and out to the suburbs, hoping to uncover the motivations of tri-corner-hatted men who wake up at dawn and fire off rounds of gunpowder in memory of liberty-loving forefathers...
Harvard students probably don’t think twice about the events behind the plaques and markers that adorn this campus. But next Patriots’ Day, student will be just a pre-dawn bike ride away from witnessing history in reenactment form. The Lexington Minute Men will be on the green—as they were more than 225 years...
...died, Abdullah Franji, 14, was fasting in accordance with the rule followed by religious Muslims to forswear food on a Thursday. Before dawn that day last November, he sat before his mother to recite the chapter of the Koran his teacher had assigned him to memorize. "If two parties of the believers contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed...
...Many monks know it. That's why Phra Sawoey Chanasapo, the 45-year-old assistant abbot of Bangkok's Temple of the Dawn, and Phra Adul Atulapanyo, 32, the assistant abbot of Wat Sangkrajai Voraviharn, enlisted in the tamruat phra at its inception. "We wanted to do something for our brothers," says Sawoey. But not all their brothers like what they do. Even when just paying a friendly visit, they're as welcome in some temples as internal-affairs investigators in a police station. Adul, who is an avid fan of detective flicks, says the life of a tamruat phra...
...dawn of President Summers’ administration this is a great opportunity to forge a leading role in this area,” Rosenfeld says...