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...International Creative Child and Adult Month --International Drum Month --Real Jewelry Month --1-7: National Fig Week --2: Plan Your Epitaph Day --2-8: National Chemistry Week --2-8: National Osteopathic Medicine Week --2-8: National Split Pea Week --3-7: Drug-Free Babies Week --3-7: National Notary Public Week --8: Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day --9-15: Operating-Room Nurse Week --10-16: Release Your Beauty for the Holidays Week --17: Homemade Bread Day --19: Have a Bad Day Day --20: United Nations Africa Industrialization Day --21-27: National Farm-City Week --21: World Hello...
...tapped two naturals to follow Ralph Reed: Randy Tate, a 1994 Gingrich House soldier, will replace Reed as director, and former Reagan Cabinet member Don Hodel will assume Pat Robertson's post as president. The message: to thine own self be true. "The last shred of the non-partisan fig leaf has been destroyed," says TIME's Laurence Barrett. "Both of these guys are even more partisan, and more explicitly so, than Reed." Putting Reed's torch in such hands suggests the coalition is ready to concentrate on its natural constituency -- white, Protestant, conservative Republicans -- and forget overtures across political...
...sated. Any day now, lawmakers may push forward on Senate Bill No. 1716, An Act Designating the Chocolate Chip Cookie as the Official Cookie of the Commonwealth. Then Weld will face the crunch of whether to sign or veto. (He is already on record as supporting the venerable Fig Newton.) Also on the menu: whether to make broccoli the official state vegetable...
...grievances singing in the genes, has kept the kettle of sectarian vengeance boiling since the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Israel became a state in 1948, and for 49 years Palestinian children have gone to sleep to stories of the nakba, the disaster, that destroyed the village, the fig, the olive, the Palestinian Eden from which nakba meant exile. Tribal memory is the plutonium of revenge. The mother shows her son the martyr-father's bloody shirt and sings the song of blood feud: Make them...