Word: holidaying
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...settlement in the Gaza Strip. The Palm Beach Hotel-the name seemed hilarious-was besieged by a serious fence topped with thick rolls of concertina wire and guarded by Israeli troops in blockhouses. There didn't seem to be many guests. Who on earth would choose to spend a holiday there? I had similar feelings about the Israeli settlers who lived nearby: Why on earth were they doing this? There was a cockeyed rationale for the Jewish settlements in the West Bank: Judea and Samaria were the heart of ancient Israel, and a modern Jewish presence there was a defensive...
...Green Day—Holiday...
...hate these people." PRINCE CHARLES, grumbling to his sons at a press conference during the royal family's Swiss ski holiday. The prince, who will marry longtime mistress Camilla Parker Bowles this week, was unaware that his comments were picked up by a microphone
...Memphis, Tenn. In the wake of King’s brutal murder, a man with the same name and same face has been elevated to a level of reverence that no other black person in American history has achieved. This other King’s birthday is a holiday, his name graces boulevards, and a honorary monument is being erected in Washington, D.C. In the meantime, the real, infinitely more complex King sits idly by, buried in the stagnant dust of college libraries lamenting his doppelganger’s decades-long turn in the spotlight...
...high-definition TVs, a pet project of Otellini's that (as president and COO) he had announced with much fanfare in January 2004, was abandoned in November when the cost of production became prohibitive. Waggish engineers made a disco ball out of defunct LCOS chips for Intel's holiday party. The company also blundered on its pricing of flash-memory chips, the kind found in cameras and the smallest of MP3 players; in both flash memory and chips for servers, Intel found itself losing ground to its biggest rival, Advanced Micro Devices...