Word: holidaying
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...city streets. Even if you aren’t, even if your parents cart you from place to place, if you walk or bike, you can spread the message to those around you: Be careful, considerate, cautious. As the Hippocratic oath goes, first, do no harm. This, the holiday season, is the time we traditionally take to cherish those around us. We would do well also to remember, everyday, that we have each others’ lives in our hands...
...model for all such observances. Lighting the Hanukkah lights is characterized as a low-key affair, with Jewish students lighting these candles quickly in common rooms, leaving promptly at the conclusion of the ceremony, and generally keeping things quiet and out-of-the-way. I find this vision of holiday observances deficient from both a Jewish perspective as well as from the perspective of a Harvard student at large...
This year, as was well expected, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report for November reported that the number of air travelers nationwide cancelling flights returning home for the Thanksgiving holiday was much higher than average. Although not yet certain, the same trend might well be expected for the upcoming Christmas holiday. As sincerely as our nation pledged in September to ignore the attempted assault of terrorism on the American spirit and the way of life this spirit sustains, these numbers show that it’s still difficult for some to board...
...Crimson now has nearly a month off from competition, but will be training for much of the holiday break. The swimmers travel to the Bahamas and the divers are off to sunny Acapulco for over a week of intense practice...
...dingy brick building at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a printing press last week churned out what amounts to 2 million holiday greeting cards: reams of flimsy leaflets that'll soon flutter over Afghanistan, wishing villagers below a happy end to Ramadan "from the people of America." Near the print plant, a giant satellite dish beams a radio program with anti-Taliban messages to an air base in Oman, where crewmen rush a compact disk of the program to Commando Solo, a converted Air Force EC-130 plane packed with broadcasting gear. Commando Solo flies over Afghanistan, blanketing the country with...