Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...futile to dispute people’s associations of Christopher Columbus with mass murder, oppression and the appalling conditions that still exist on reservations. And maybe it doesn’t help that we have assigned Columbus a holiday, which is basically the most vague, imprecise and symbolic honor we can bestow...
However, Yardstick does protest the unfortunate fact that, because Columbus has his own holiday, he is a rich target for coarse cartooning. Yardstick also protests that it is ahistorical to view Columbus through the lens of today’s moral standards. It is the kind of work that pop historians have done for years with their Troubled Genius biographies: Kepler was a nut, Hemingway was a drunk, and don’t get us started on Rousseau...
...Jane Sexton, 30, a Hong Kong marketing executive and frequent flyer. "I'm not nervous about flying," she says, "but you're on a plane, and you can't help thinking about it. And with all the suffering, your stress does come up." Sexton says she canceled a planned holiday in India because she didn't want to be stranded there in the event of war in South Asia. Other flyers are finding that life insurers are raising premiums, or even denying coverage, for travel to certain areas. Business travelers are re-examining whether, with technology such as video conferencing...
...grim litany rings out in every synagogue in the country every year, last Thursday included. A key passage in the liturgy for Yom Kippur, the somber Jewish holiday of repentance, bids believers to speculate on the ways to die. "Who by fire and who by water," they read in unison. "Who by the sword and who by wild beasts, who by famine and who by drought..." It is a hard passage. Wild beasts? There are usually some raised eyebrows...
...beheadings tend to stick in the mind. Besides, there have been problems since, including a fight between rival villages in which nine people died. And anyway, this is Indonesia, sick man of Asia, viewed as primed to explode in 1,000 different ethnic and religious directions. Seriously, why holiday in Lombok...