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...have Easter off this year, consider yourself overworked. With Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh holidays all falling on the same April 13-16 weekend, most of the world is taking a break. Wild festivals abound. It's an ideal time for a few days away. Here's our pick of Easter escapes in Asia...
...main festivals is on Good Friday at San Fernando, an hour north of Manila. In the capital, hoodlums in the barrio of Tondo leave knives and guns at home for a week and beat themselves in apology for their sins. Another year of skulduggery resumes on Easter Monday...
JAPAN Japanese do not take Easter off, but the cherry blossom season and its attendant festivals will be in full bloom across the country. Don't miss the candle-lit gatherings in the bigger parks...
...There could be some Thursday-night connection between what John McCain wanted - a victory for campaign finance reform - and what Trent Lott wanted, which was a few Republican moderates to help send his president off on Easter recess with a brand-new budget. In any case, a foot-dragging Tom Daschle got the budget disruption he wanted by spilling McCain-Feingold over into next week, but whatever magic the Republicans worked to get their tally to 50 will go down as Lott's great coup...
...nothing to do with McCain-Feingold - it's about the budget. Lott desperately wants to get all the budget resolution through the Senate next week, and hand President Bush a huge legislative victory going into Easter recess. Daschle wants to stop...