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...boys in the driveway now, and were lighting sparklers and smaller fireworks and laughing whenever a fiery rocket got stuck in a tree or went off course, which was most of the time. I wished them happy Diwali and they returned the salutation, perhaps amused to be sharing the ritual fireworks display with foreigners. After a while they headed inside and I headed home. The explosions continued for the next 24 hours, rumbling on across the city like aftershocks from some enormous earthquake...
...done about this situation. You need only watch the smooth and civilized O?Grady, cracking little jokes as he fences with a lawyer, to understand that a few sessions with a shrink are not going to deliver anyone from the evil he represents. Included herein are the ritual appeals for an end to the celibate priesthood, but that?s not going to happen, either - it is an idea too firmly entrenched for successful attack. And one wonders if its end would do any more good than massive psychological counseling. Within a reflexively authoritarian organization, there is plenty of room...
...play outside, the kids on your block lived for the festivity of Muslim holidays. You collected money to sell cold drinks on the Twelfth Imam's birthday; you lined up behind the great marching rows of young men chanting and flagellating themselves on Ashura, a Shi'ite mourning ritual. On these occasions, there were crowds, bright lights, and delicious things to eat; outside of these occasions, there was basically no fun permitted in public. In school, your teacher taught you to pray, you were forced to fast, and as the years passed, veiled women became the only reality...
...actually a character with the surname Buttafucco (sic). That said, this series, about Lydia DeLucca (Heather Paige Kent), a 32-year-old New Jersey woman who ditches her troglodyte fianc? to go back to college, is cleverly directed and makes a few fresh observations. The DeLucca family Sunday-dinner ritual - the meal is wolfed down, to the ticking of an egg timer, during halftime of the Giants game - is a great set piece. The series will have to lose the red-sauce clich?s before we start watching it with that kind of devotion, but its good humor and uncompetitive time...
...fraternities do lurk among Harvard’s masses. Three of them, in fact: Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), Sigma Chi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). As invitations to rush meetings begin to flood freshmen doorboxes, FM decided to check out these brothers from different mothers and their bi-annual ritual to attract new members, dubbed “rush.” According to AEPi’s president, Jason R. Borschow ’07, AEPi delivers invitations to a special “subset of freshmen...who might be interested.” While AEPi has carved...