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Ladies and gentlemen, let me ask those of you up front to move back so that everyone can see and hear, for I am about to perform a time-honored healing ritual of political journalists. With the able assistance of a corps of researchers, I shall produce a cornucopia of quotations bemoaning the state of our candidates and the campaign, only to reveal that--tah-dahhh!--these comments were about past political campaigns. Ready...
...staged a bloodless coup that ended the 23-year reign of his father Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, 64, who had developed an unseemly fondness for liquor and opulent palaces. Since then, Qataris have witnessed one of the bitterest Arabian family spats in memory, involving cash and arms, ritual and reform. Only last week did a cease-fire seem to take hold. Khalifa appeared to renounce his claims, and Hamad agreed to let his father return from exile and become Qatar's elder statesman...
Halgreen enjoys an unusual pre-competition ritual: "[I] drink a couple of beers so I relax. Then I just skate...
...Bands like Green Day, Hootie and the Blowfish and Pearl Jam are built up, and then, when they become successful, trashed by the very same tastemakers and trendmeisters who declared these acts worthwhile to begin with. Only a few bands like U2 and R.E.M. manage to escape the ritual slaughter and mature with grace...
This summer, I interned at a magazine in New York. Part of my daily ritual would be to buy my breakfast at Au Bon Pain and eat it while reading a newspaper that I bought at the newsstand off the subway. To me, that's tradition: eating breakfast while reading the Metro section. One day a woman with whom I worked, looked at me, seemingly puzzled by what I was doing. She said, "I can't believe that you still read the paper. Time has changed, just read it on the computer like everyone else." I am only 21 years...