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LOURDES, France—“I must be the only New York City Jew for hundreds of miles,” I think as I walk down the street towards the famous Grotto, one of the world’s most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites, where in the mid-19th century St. Bernadette is said to have had a vision of the Virgin. After a restless overnight train, I am armed with my notebook and my Let’s Go press pass, ready to be fascinated, repelled and intrigued. I’m not ready...
...restaurant is on two levels: below ground, a cozy, stony grotto with fewer than a dozen tables; at street level, on either side of a narrow corridor, about eight more, at one of which we are finally seated. And straight to business we go: Water! Wine list! Menu! Bread Basket...
...besieged by a host of armies over the centuries, the church has even inspired bickering among scholars, who argue about whether Jesus was born here at all. Many believe he was actually born in Nazareth, not in Bethlehem, and certainly not in some little manger in the cool grotto over which the Holy Roman Emperors built a shrine to their deepest hopes...
...fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar in Helmand province, but then the one-eyed cleric simply vanished. A month earlier at Tora Bora, local fighters claimed to have surrounded Osama bin Laden and some 2,000 of his henchmen in the cave complex, but by the time the last grotto fell, some 1,800 of those fighters - and bin Laden himself - were nowhere to be found...
...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...