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Halloween was part of the traditional pre-Christian cycle of festivals in many different parts of Europe. The Church tried to tame it in a variety of ways, but the idea that it is a time when the veil between our world and the Otherworld is especially thin and the...
But this honor was not the first time he had earned Rookie of the Week. From September 22nd through the 29th, the Crimson had one of its toughest stretches of the season, facing off against Maine, Duke and North Carolina. Hoff rose to the occasion, contributing two goals and an...
On another occasion, he might have just taken a couple of passes thrown his way and picked up a few short gains. But this was Veach’s afternoon in the sun and the Crimson defense just couldn’t touch him.
...present accord - with a potent mix of roars of "No!" and political craft. Unionists are wary, outnumbered on the island of Ireland and detached from the rest of the U.K. by geography. Their insecurity has been fed by continued I.R.A. misadventures, including allegations of gunrunning, spying, abduction and occasionally murder. Life in Northern Ireland has undoubtedly improved since the paramilitary cease-fires were reached nearly 10 years ago, but unionists tend to discount the diffuse benefits against those memorable hiccups. In Paisley, the skeptics have their champion. He is easily the most formidable character in Ulster religion and politics. Republicans...
Any true humanitarian knows that a body like the U.N. does good, on occasion. But when sparse good works combine with the farcical reality that Libya leads the Human Rights Commission—largely to insulate itself from allegations—and the fact that the U.N.�...