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...male resident of Wigglesworth Hall had also planned an elaborate ritual. Sophomores who survived the housing ordeal last year passed down their secret to the seven men in his group...
...eruv is a ritual enclosure that creates a ceremonial boundary around an area, allowing Orthodox Jews to transport items on the traditional day of rest. According to Orthodox interpretation of Jewish law, work--including carrying--cannot be performed on the Sabbath...
...started talking. Perez says he was part of a tight-knit group of CRASH officers who played by twisted rules. This antigang fraternity acted a lot like a gang itself. When a new recruit joined the unit, CRASH members allegedly circled around and beat him--an initiation ritual that criminal gangs call "jumping in." In one case, a white CRASH officer leaving the scene of a police beating of a civilian--for which the city had to pay a $25,000 settlement--allegedly yelled out, "¡Puro Rampart! [Totally Rampart]," an imitation of a gang slogan...
...Romans dealt with this through the ritual of damnatio memoriae, the condemnation of memory. To make it seem as if as a vicious person had never lived, all statues of him were destroyed or recarved, his name effaced from public inscriptions and documents related to him destroyed. The ritual provided a clear message that his behavior had been unacceptable and tried to remove the blot on the history of Rome that his crimes had created...
McCain still sees the battle that raged in South Carolina--and that this week spreads to Michigan and beyond--as a chance for an epochal party realignment, a ritual of G.O.P purification. But his party may not be ready for the purity he has in mind. As Bush and his aides see it, the party feud caused by McCain's surge is merely a minor, passing unpleasantness, not a long-term problem. And they believe the damage Bush did to his own image in South Carolina can be easily fixed. Says a senior Bush adviser: "We'll patch things...