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...indictment in the U.S. of five Blackwater guards accused of killing 17 unarmed civilians at a busy intersection in the Iraqi capital last year. "It's about time they pay for their crimes," said Hosham Abdel Kader, a 53-year-old who was celebrating the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday with his family at a restaurant in the mainly-Shi'ite Karrada district. "I recoil, I freeze when I see those mercenaries on the street...
...something is rotten this holiday season at the Apple App Store. With all the hoop-de-doo about Christmas and Hanukah, another holiday that people normally observed in December is utterly unrepresented as of this writing: Festivus...
Where is the Festivus Pole app, commemorating the holiday's traditional, simple, unadorned aluminum pole? Or what about a Grievances List app, so that one can keep track of all the things people did during the past year that disappointed? It would certainly help observers recite them during the Airing of Grievances, which typically occurs after Festivus Dinner...
Allen Salkin, who wrote the canonical Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us, and became the unofficial spokesman for the anti-holiday - popularized by a 1997 episode of Seinfeld - does not see any conspiracy here. "Fundamentally Festivus is cheap," he pointed out. "And I say this as someone who wants you to buy the new and updated paperback version of the book for $9.99 this year...
...musicians were expressive and lyrical when they needed to be. With the next concert series not until next year, Levine and the Symphony Orchestra left 2008 on a high note. Levine’s focus on precision and openness to new interpretation truly provided Bostonians with an early holiday treat...