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...strong position, there can be no peace. We can bring about lasting peace if we deal with each other cooperatively and recognize that neither can gain a permanent strategic advantage, either militarily or politically, anywhere." As Kissinger likes to stress, détente is not necessarily a love feast, but it is nothing at all if either side tries to turn it into a device for unilateral rather than mutual gain...
...nearly two millenniums, the feast of Passover has been a lamp of hope in the dark night of Jewish existence. In ghetto and concentration camp, amidst pogrom or Inquisition, it has reminded Jews the world over that the Lord who led them out of Egypt would set them free again...
...this night different from all other nights?" a child would ask at the Seder, the ritual meal on the first night of the week-long feast. Why the matzo? Why the bitter herbs? Then, as the family followed the rites set down in the Haggadah (literally, a "telling"), the old story would unfold: the bitter slavery under the Pharaoh and God's scourging of Egypt with plagues until the children of Israel were set free. And always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses...
Buffalo Braves Coach Jack Ramsay is an incorrigible optimist. At the beginning of this season, following three years of famine for his expansion team, Ramsay had hopes for a veritable feast: nothing less than 42 victories, double last year's total. With Rookie Ernie DiGregorio the best-known player on the team, Ramsay's goal seemed laughable...
Despite the distances of time and character, the University Choir gave an excellent performance of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers. The Vespers are made up of an introductory versicle, five psalms, a hymn especially for the Feast of the Virgin, and The Magnificat...