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Lilacs are the only flowers that have been given their own day for celebration on the calendar, and in honor of their beauty, on Lilac Sunday people are allowed to picnic at the Arnold Arboretum. Purvey the arboretum’s famed lilac collection, enjoy dance performances, and meander aimlessly around the arboretum’s beautiful 265 acres...
...Great - who was rumored to drink up to half a gallon (2 L) of vodka a day - cracked down on home-brewed alcohol by creating liquor licenses, which were required in order to sell vodka. Catherine the Great made it illegal for anyone other than the aristocracy to purvey it, which boosted the drink's quality - and the Czarina's coffers. By 1860, more than 40% of government revenue came from vodka. The distillation process had improved (vodka was now filtered with charcoal and occasionally flavored), leading to increased consumption. By 1913, Russian citizens could boast one unlicensed, bootlegging distillery...
...believe that it's possible for certain kinds of low-overhead content producers to eke out a living here, attracting enough audience to generate modest ad revenue. So far, this has worked best for curators, scavengers and commentators - the three pillars of the Temple of Blog - and others who purvey short-form stuff...
...drugs traditionally don't raise too many eyebrows in India - a vast swath of the population, from government ministers to saffron-clad Hindu holy men, occasionally consume bhang, a potent and popular cannabis tincture. But India's wealthy have hitherto frowned upon hard drugs, looking upon them as the purvey of the country's poor. For years, India has grappled with "brown sugar" -low-grade heroin produced locally or imported from Afghanistan or Burma - that has left a trail of overdoses and HIV infections in its wake...
...seeing the film, and I plan on enjoying it. Why can’t people just enjoy the movie (and the book) for what it is: an enthralling piece of fiction. Neither Dan Brown, the author of the book, nor Ron Howard, the director of the film, claim to purvey anything more than that. Fiction. For those who have forgotten, fiction means “pretend,” i.e. not worth hunger-striking over. People with the penchant to boycott, disrupt, or hunger-strike should pick a more meaningful cause. MATTHEW J. HALL...