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Christmas is the only holiday for which my family puts leaves in our dining room table and uses all four of the stove burners at the same time. It is the holiday richest with ritual. And carols epitomize Christmas ritual: I love them not for the way they sound but for the way they are sung in the Rooster Church in December, when everyone’s voices blend to share the “Coventry Carol” as it has been shared since the sixteenth century...
Meanwhile, with room inspections fast approaching, students will once again engage in the yearly ritual of hiding their illegal microwaves in strategic locations...
Every Monday and Thursday morning, scores of Harvard undergraduates wake up early to engage in the ritual of plastering the Yard with hundreds of eight and one-half by 11 inch pieces of colored paper. Armed with rolls of tape and stacks of paper, these students fight the cold and the wind to represent their student groups. They should all still be asleep...
...determined to soften his wooden image. He has taped a Barbara Walters interview to promote his new book on families, Joined at the Heart, and will be host of Saturday Night Live in December. Gore has yet to declare himself a candidate, but few politicians would go through the ritual humiliation of an SNL appearance without a specific goal...
...ritual humiliation of arms inspections may not be the only factor weighing on Saddam's strategic calculations. He may truly believe that weapons of mass destruction are essential to his regime's survival. Chemical weapons became an integral part of Iraq's artillery arsenal during the war against Iran as the most effective defense against Iran's "human wave" infantry assaults. Saddam is also reportedly convinced that the reason U.S. troops didn't march on Baghdad in 1991 was fear of his unconventional arsenal...