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...steps, a cry rang out. A dukun--a Javanese soothsayer--who habitually accompanies Wahid called the party to a halt. He said he could see the "big man," the spirit of Suharto, standing in the doorway at the top of the steps. He insisted on carrying out a prayer ritual before the President and his family could enter the building...
...recent camping trip with our TV-addicted extended family, we alone knew how to entertain ourselves. Our first night in the woods, we suggested playing charades, and it became our hilarious nightly ritual. On our last night, we held a "no-talent show," in which each person sang or told stories for the group. I don't know how long my daughter and I can hold out without TV, but we've learned some discipline and some alternatives. Maybe we can't kill the sucker--but we can control...
Recycled patriotism is soothing in a way. Like the ritual reading of the Declaration from the Old State House balcony, which has been repeated every July 4 since 1776, the stock themes of patriotic rhetoric are as much a part of the nostalgia of the Fourth as the John Phillips Sousa marches repeated every year...
...quaint but unfathomable game of bat and ball that can last up to five days, replete with daily breaks for luncheon and tea, without producing a result; but for the British and their erstwhile subjects cricket is more than just sport - it is a cultural ritual that encapsulates the Kiplingesque virtues of fair play, decency, subordinating one's ego to the greater good, fighting hard but fair for victory and remaining eternally gracious in defeat. And that accounts for the social anguish caused by the international match-fixing scandal currently unfolding in South Africa, on top of similar allegations that...
...Walk into F-31 any Wednesday night at about 8 p.m. and prepare to be attacked. The senior trio of May H. Li, Sally E. Sadoff and Maureen K. Schad perch themselves on the crowded couches and chairs in their common room for their ritual viewing of "Dawson's Creek...