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...venerable fish-and-chips shops are offering cappuccino alongside fried cod, and a few pub menus are substituting bruschetta for bacon and cabbage. But wild deer still lope through Phoenix Park, the largest city park in Europe, and the pub keepers still draw a Guinness with the reverence and ritual of a Japanese tea ceremony...
...appear to have been obtained from a funerary warehouse, since close examination reveals that other people's names were erased from them and Tut's name was applied. And the embalming was marred by buckets of unguents dumped over the mummy at the end. Was that part of the ritual or a crude attempt at a cover...
...fall ritual as timeworn as buying spiral notebooks and neglecting to vote: asking how much lower TV's moral limbo dance will go. Is TV becoming a nonstop Mardi Gras of skanks flashing themselves for trinkets? Is any broadcaster still interested in programs that a whole family can watch? The answers are yes--and yes. The former is obvious if you have seen the pixelated nudity on Big Brother 3 and Dog Eat Dog. But a sizable minority of the fall's new programs are, shockingly, about families working out problems with love and clean dialogue...
...wedding ritual can be as short as an hour, unlike typical Indian matrimonial affairs that can stretch for days. Village elders preside over the nuptials. The men in attendance are usually dressed in traditional regalia: embroidered turbans and knee-length black skirts, with intricately patterned ceremonial knives?called pichekathi?tucked into their belts. Weddings are informal and gifts are not necessary. But given the firearms and knives in abundance, take care not to offend your hosts...
Sometimes a cigarette isn't just a cigarette. Nowhere is that more evident, these days, than in Cairo. For four consecutive summers, I've met friends for drinks at the Greek Club downtown in the Egyptian capital, but this year there's a new ritual to our gathering: Before sitting down, everyone tosses their pack of cigarettes onto the table for a brand inspection. Gauloise (French), Cleopatra (Egyptian) and Rothmans (Canadian) pass without comment, but a pack of Marlboros demands explanation. Boycotting American cigarettes has become a standard political statement in a city where the vast majority of urban professionals...