Word: holidaying
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While many Harvard attendees said they were expecting a dismal turnout due to the fact that the holiday fell during exam-period, the Middlesex crowd helped fill nearly every pew in Memorial Church as members of Harvard’s black community and the Kuumba Singers read selections of King’s work and sang traditional spirituals during an hour-long service...
...Burns Night is also an occasion for Scots at home and abroad, from Ewan McGregor to Gordon Brown, to affirm their identity as part of a fiercely proud people. Scotland's official national day is actually St. Andrew's day, November 30, but it's not a holiday and passes barely noted. Scots would rather celebrate their heroes, it seems, than themselves, and Burns Night is just such an excuse for patriotic revelry refracted through the egalitarian everyman poet who so captured the national psyche...
...Kong dropped 5.5%, its biggest percentage loss since Sept. 11, 2001. India's benchmark shed 7.4%. In Europe, Britain fell 5.5%, France 6.8%, and Germany 7.2%. Brazilian stocks dropped 6.6% and Canada's main index lost 4.8%. In the U.S., markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but when they reopened on Jan. 22, the Dow industrials promptly shed 300 points, joining the sell-off that continued overseas, forcing trading to be suspended in India and South Korea...
...three weeks or less in state. And while Iowans have been trained by 32 years of caucusing, this is a new idea for most Nevadans. To further complicate things, the caucus is taking place at the worst possible time: on a Saturday afternoon, smack in the middle of a Holiday weekend - theoretically one of the busiest times for everyone from the croupiers to the busboys. Estimates for turnout range from 25,000 to 100,000. "It's going to be somewhat difficult for everybody, not just Hispanics who tend to work Saturdays,"said Fernando Romero, president of the non-partisan...
...seemed a worthy idea at the time: Last January, two competing Atlanta radio stations - one with a predominantly black audience and another with mostly white listeners - would throw a joint "unity party" at a nightclub in Martin Luther King's hometown, on the eve of his birthday holiday. The goal was to bring people of different races together for a night of exuberant partying. Seconds after the simulcast announcement by morning show hosts Frank Ski of V-103 FM and Bert Weiss of Q100-FM, the phone lines at both stations lit up with calls of support from listeners frustrated...