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Anyway, the Christmas and Easter crowd turned the ringers off their cell phones and sat through the 90 minute ordeal. Don't worry, the cuff-linked Ivy crowd didn't throw all their $50 into the collection plate. They had plenty dough left over for a little post-worship shoppin' courtesy of Newbury Street...
...Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Macedonia, Ohio, you'll have to cross a picket line. Six young McDonald's employees got so angry over management's alleged rudeness and refusal to grant leave over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike...
...terms of human rights Cahill pointed to what he called historic oppression of the Catholic Irish majority by the Protestant minority and the British government. Specifically, he pointed to the Orange Order, a Protestant loyalist group which marches each Easter to commemorate along-ago victory over the Catholics, as a vigilante organization...
...Irish rise up against the British in the Easter Rebellion...
...important distinction between students that must be respected and better understood. As intelligent people we are obligated to be as conversant about religions as we are about political parties or the classics of English literature. And it doesn't prove you know anything about religion to note that Easter and Passover overlap this year...