Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find my Grinch-like stance softening year by year. You can accuse the Christmas costumers of turning Christ's Mass into kitsch. Or you can see them, from a loftier perspective, as the only true celebrants of the original Christmas spirit, which we have tended to lose sight of in recent centuries. Check out the holiday's history: Dec. 25 wasn't chosen because it was the date on Jesus' birth certificate but because that was the time of the ancient Saturnalia, when all of Rome poured into the streets for days of public revelry. Even Christianity couldn't take...
Microsoft?s Choice In complying with a judge?s unbundling order, Microsoft is offering PC makers an out-of-date version of Windows 95. DOJ sources say they're violating the spirit of the law. Is a new showdown looming? Full Story Take our Microsoft poll (Web users only...
...Spirit," he asks, "are they yours...
...still believe that people are really good at heart," the doomed heroine says at the end of The Diary of Anne Frank. The words, taken from the real Anne's journal, were designed to give Broadway audiences an uplifting scoot out the door, a parting affirmation of the human spirit. But it worked only if you didn't think too hard about what happened to the characters in real life. Anne and the seven family members and friends who spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex above an Amsterdam warehouse were herded off to concentration camps...
HAVANA: It could be that Fidel Castro is auditioning for the role of a reformed Ebenezer Scrooge, who wakes from his troubled sleep with time left to spread the holiday spirit. It's more likely, however, that he just wants to impress Pope John Paul II, who at the end of January becomes the first pontiff ever to visit this Caribbean island. That's the thinking behind Castro's unprecedented decision to make Christmas an official holiday in Cuba this year...