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...that the great portrait of 1997 was Dolly the cloned sheep. In her anonymous face our misgivings about science are perfectly duplicated, mostly because she's our best picture of the assembly-line production of life. (Unless you count the McCaughey septuplets.) Dolly is also our sphinx in the manger. Somewhere in the black dots of her eyes there's a message, something about how hard it is to micromanage the most subtle departments of creation. Lamb of God, lamb of man--when we look at her, is that our future we see? Maybe it's just a trick...
...show based on the story of Christmas? I think it might go something like this. 'So you've got this woman who's pregnant, but she hasn't had sex with anyone...And there are these, these three kings?...Then they lay the baby in a manger. Pardon me, what's a manger?...Is this a gag? Is this one of the guys in the office...
Last year, Coleman was the co-director and co-stage manger of Cultural Rhythms. She also was a co-director of the science conference...
...died. It is free verse, 79 lines, and is called "Mother's Meditation (In the Hospital)." In it she reflects on Christ's question to his apostles: "Who do you say I am?" She notes that he was the boy born in Bethlehem, "put in the manger full of straw...kept warm by the breath of the donkey," who grew up to be "an ordinary man without much learning...
...reach an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel's long-delayed pullout from nearby Hebron, was at the biblical birth place of Jesus to commemorate Christmas. Tourists traveling to Bethlehem were met with a gantlet of Israeli checkpoints, sniper towers and barbed wire fences to reach Manger Square, where they were greeted by armed Palestinian soldiers. Violence earlier this year and the slowed peace negotiations have dampened tourism to the Holy Land this season. Shop owners who rely on Christmas holidays to sustain them through lean months are struggling. Israel's 43.3 billion tourism industry...