Word: meccas
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After many years of waiting, prowling the “Sundance” section at Blockbuster, and watching channel 117 (Sundance Channel), I finally made the pilgrimage to Robert Redford’s mecca of film and celebrity this January. Despite the all-star journalists at the country’s top newspapers, magazines, and blogs that criticize Sundance’s growing commercial and mainstream vibe, I think I found the true spirit of the festival. It just resided in the least likely places...
...three girls walking down Meiji Street in the heart of Tokyo's Harajuku district are talking loudly in cute high voices, sometimes breaking into giggles. They could be any group of teenage girls on a merry shopping expedition in the Japanese capital's mecca of youth fashion - except for the fact that they are clad in clothing and accessories that mimic the look of comic-book heroines wearing the style of 18th-century princesses...
...move that bodes ill for University plans to transform its new Allston campus into a mecca for stem cell research, Harvard provost Steven E. Hyman has asked faculty to consider the possibility of housing the department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology in existing University facilities in Cambridge...
...group for taking on the tobacco lobby in its antismoking efforts, the clerics fell short of banning the habit outright - not surprising in a country where cigarette companies employ tens of millions of people and are among the biggest sources of tax revenues for the government. (Read "In the Mecca of Celebrity Yoga...
...allies say the camp of Arab moderates has been thoroughly discredited. Calls for peace with Israel have never sounded so hollow, they say. "The settlement process [between Arabs and Israel] is gone," Nawaf Mussawi, Hizballah's chief of international relations, told TIME. "The resistance [against Israel] has become the mecca of everyone in the region." (See pictures of Israel's deadly assault on Gaza...