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...title of an old Rodgers and Hart song. The gaudy box-office take for My Bloody Valentine's 3-D remake will surely cue more feast-day gorefests. Expect to see The Scarin' of the Green on St. Patrick's Day and Peter Choppin'tail for Easter, as well as My Pukey Purim and, every four years, Inauguration Day: Fear Itself...
...wonderful structures that tell you how it is put together and how it functions.” During the first leg of the mission, the crew will go from Colorado to Montana to Alaska to New Zealand to the American Samoa to the South Pole to Tahiti to Easter Island to Costa Rica and then back to Colorado. The first two parts of the mission, Montana and Alaska, have been successfully completed, Wofsy said, adding that the researchers found “a very marked difference between the air you find in the United States and the arctic...
When did Christmas Eve displace Christmas Day as the time for Christians to observe one of the two holiest days in the church year? Some traditions, including Catholics and Anglicans, hold midnight masses on the Saturday before Easter to usher in that holiday. But everyone still shows up the next morning for the traditional Easter celebration, just as Christmas Day remains a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics, who are likely to be found in church the day after attending a Midnight Mass. By contrast, the Christmas service everyone thinks of as "traditional" is the Service of Lessons...
...hold the attention" of infrequent church-goers. (They also devote considerable space to trading concerns about the fire hazards posed by those Christmas Eve candles their congregants love holding.) One pastor said he considered regular Sunday services at his church to be "seeker-friendly," but holidays like Christmas and Easter were "seeker-focused." The irony is that by holding Christmas Eve services that cater to first-time visitors and shuttering their doors on Christmas Day, churches often fail to meet the spiritual needs of their longtime members on one of the holiest days of the year...
...unusual turn of events for the men’s soccer team, the Crimson played at Cumnock Turf instead of at its customary home of Ohiri Field due to inclement weather from the recent nor’easter. But yesterday’s non-conference game against Providence (7-6-3) was, in the end, business as usual. Once again No. 17 Harvard (9-3-0) emerged victorious, extending its winning streak to six games with its 3-1 win. Seniors John Stamatis and co-captain Michael Fucito each had a goal and an assist to lead the Crimson, which...