Word: parkes
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...Jewish joy to the world. Last month, thinking woman's heartthrob Jon Stewart appeared on Stephen Colbert's Christmas TV special and meekly sang the tune, Can I Interest You in Hanukkah? Whether the answer from most viewers was yes or no, at least Kyle can tell his South Park buddies it's getting a little less lonely to be a Jew on Christmas...
...musical quality of the goofy ditty was beside the point. But the media attention the song received - an actor celebrating Hanukkah? - paved the way for more writers and artists to be loud and proud about their Jewishness. A couple of years later, the humorously juvenile Comedy Central series South Park weighed in with an episode in which Kyle Broflovski, a Jewish kid exasperated by the holiday season, singing "A Jew on Christmas." "I'm a Jew, a lonely Jew, I'd be merry, but I'm Hebrew, on Christmas... Hanukkah is nice but why is it that Santa passes over...
...makes a popular muscle car, the Challenger, that comes in Tora Red and Hemi Orange. (Hemi is car-speak for a type of engine that accelerates like a rocket). There's a shiny red one, with a big green bow on the hood, on the showroom floor in Overland Park, Kan., and sales manager Mike Sullivan is confident it will be sold - and soon...
...boards of the Picower Foundation,” Kahn said. “That connection looked pretty bad.” Four days later, the two received an e-mail from Picower informing them that the Florida-based foundation, which has offices on New York’s Park Avenue, had not escaped the fate that has befallen Madoff’s many victims...
Ease Your Getaway. If you're flying out of Atlanta for the holidays, kick off your travel with a touch of luxury. Book a room with the "Park Here, Fly There" package (promotional code PKF) at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel Atlanta Airport, and you can leave your car in the hotel parking lot for up to 10 days. The hotel will shuttle you free to and from the airport. Rooms start at $105 on weekends, and $165 on weekdays. One Hartsfield Centre Parkway, Atlanta...