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...sort of national spectacle, and the public has been barred access to streets where the parade takes place. While the events are meant to herald China's arrival as a modern superpower, the era when the Qing Emperor would sit perched atop his throne at the gates of the Forbidden City, surveying his massed army before him, still doesn't seem that far away...
...prayer, a day of fasting,” said the first-year Divinity School student in an interview after the event. “All work is forbidden. We simply atone for our sins during the past year...
...crisis shaking media houses across the world has made no exception for Italy. In a country where layoffs are all but forbidden, more than 500 journalists are expected to lose their jobs in September. Yet the demand for a different type of reporting remains striking. Last fall, I attended a festival of international journalism organized by the magazine Internazionale, a weekly compilation of foreign news sources. Attendees overflowed the auditoriums, then sat in the piazzas to listen to the proceedings over loudspeakers. In an era of plunging circulation, sales of Internazionale grew 25% last year. "The people who stop buying...
...subtle security will keep them away. That has been a feature of the mausoleum long before its latest celebrity client. Family members and plot holders must pass through guards or security camera-manned doors in order to visit loved ones in the structure. Curious wandering is forbidden. Roger Sinclair, 77, a historian of cemeteries who has bought a plot for himself in the Great Mausoleum, was not made to feel welcome, even as a future occupant. Says Sinclair: "I was looking at Travis Banton, a costume designer located near W.C. Fields. And the guards came right up and stood there...
...rules of Ramadan are fairly straightforward: for one month, all practicing, able-bodied Muslims over the age of 12 are forbidden to eat or drink from sunup to sundown. Muslims believe that during this month the gates of hell close - meaning the devil is unable to tempt them during a month of discipline, charity and self-control. The objective of the fast, which also prohibits participating in "sensual pleasures" such as smoking, sex and even listening to music during daylight hours, is to diminish believers' dependence on material goods, purify their hearts and establish solidarity with the poor to encourage...