Word: holidaying
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...lucky ones. The 56-year-old retiree, who lives in Shanghai, dabbles a bit in local stocks, exchanging investment tips with what she calls her "mah-jongg friends," a group that gets together each week to play and chat. Just before the Chinese New Year holiday last month, one of her friends spoke ominously of rumors that China's government was planning a crackdown on stock speculation, including a possible tax on capital gains. Over the past 18 months, Chen's small portfolio had almost doubled in value as the Shanghai market shot straight up. So she decided to pull...
...established a neutral safety zone to protect some 200,000 Nanjing residents during the conflict. The film is the brainchild of Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner), who had chanced upon Chang's obituary in a yellowing newspaper while on holiday in the Caribbean. "It shocked me, one, that I didn't know anything about this incident and, two, that there were these remarkable people whose stories had really never been told," he recalls...
...uninitiated, Trout Day originated when the local school district first decided to cancel class because too many students would skip to go fishing. Out of that small move, a local holiday was born. But, time has gone by and now most students don’t go fishing on their day off. I can hardly blame them. I never went fishing on Trout Day. The majority of the people I know didn’t go either. It was a day, in my mind that was too cold, too crowded, and started too early...
...Objectively speaking, most holidays are atrocious because they force us to do things we don’t want to do. For example, Presidents’ Day (the day formally known as Washington’s Birthday) is a holiday when all Americans are suppose to do their civic duty by buying linens and dwelling upon the achievements of Millard Fillmore. Columbus Day is a day to remember 1492—to paraphrase Vonnegut—the year sea pirates discovered a new continent. Thanksgiving is the time to eat cranberry-covered turkey and be nice to your family?...
...Today, you may run into me going to class or polishing papers or problem sets, but make no mistake: I’ll be having my holiday. It’s the beginning of March, the beginning of spring, and the beginning of Cambridge’s slow transition from the land of permanent darkness to a place where the sun sets after 4 p.m. On account of this, I find it the perfect day to slack off from my workaholic load and enjoy the loafing. Anyone’s welcome to join me. No fishing rods are required...