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Brace yourselves. A new wave of wine marketing is upon us. Julie Brosterman found herself drenched in it as she strolled the aisles of a Rite Aid in Los Angeles. Surrounding her were towering displays of pink and white wines in bottles bearing such flowery names as Seduction and White Lie. Brosterman, creator of the website womenwine.com derisively dubs them the Virginia Slims of the wine trade...
...Thais will tell you that the annual Songkran festival (April 8 to 16) is all about thanksgiving and family reunions?and so it is. But the best part of it is the license to douse passersby with water. This practice is apparently a rite of purification, but given that temperatures in Bangkok at this time of year can easily reach 35?C, it's also a brilliantly timed excuse to cool off. If you happen to be in the Thai capital?or indeed in any one of dozens of towns and cities across the kingdom?don't think that your...
...feel like you’re being initiated, like you’re actually at Harvard,” said Claire J. Saffitz ’09, who will live in Adams House. “It’s like a rite of passage...
...Thais will tell you that the annual Songkran festival (April 8 to 16) is all about thanksgiving and family reunions - and so it is. But the best part of it is the license to douse passersby with water. This practice is apparently a rite of purification, but given that temperatures in Bangkok at this time of year can easily reach 35?C, it's also a brilliantly timed excuse to cool off. If you happen to be in the Thai Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine...
...years that you have been able to live a celibate life, it could be possible. But there would need to be spiritual and psychological evaluations. Is ending the celibacy requirement the only real way to address the shortage of priests? In the Western church [as opposed to the Eastern rite church], celibacy is a discipline from the invitation of Christ to "follow me." He is the model. But we also need to be more creative about finding new ways to get men to step forward to the priesthood. There should be a greater sharing of priests - from places that have...