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Yet, despite this religious apathy or antipathy, the final stretch before Christmas, and the impending Christmas break, is still greeted with unmitigated glee. Certainly, Christmas in America has lost most of its religious flavor, as atheists, secular Jews, and other non-Christians all eagerly mark with merriment the Yuletide occasion...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The War Against Christmas | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

The city of Cambridge itself has continued its custom of festooning Harvard Square with strings of lights. Overhanging Massachusetts Avenue at various locations, peculiar whirlpool-shaped designs shed blurs of light on the automobiles and pedestrians passing below. These odd illuminations alert visitors and residents alike of some impending festive...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The War Against Christmas | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

The Kite Runner begins and ends in contemporary America, and the story it tells is firmly set against the history of modern Afghanistan, from a point just before the Soviet invasion of that unhappy land to the moment after the Taliban imposed its hateful fundamentalism on the country. Yet the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kite Runner Flies | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

To get his scale models of Tokyo just right, Tsuburaya surveyed the city from rooftop elevations (on one occasion, when he was overheard talking with a colleague about how exactly they planned to destroy the neighborhood, the two were detained by security guards). Instead of filming a puppet of Godzilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monster Success | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

On Thursday, 27 European leaders will gather in Lisbon to sign a reform treaty, which is designed to streamline E.U. decision-making - an occasion they will unfailingly describe as proud, historic and symbolic. But as they put their pens to the document aimed at bringing the E.U. closer to its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The EU Treaty's Flying Circus | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

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