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...iteration of Vishnu whose form, along with his two brothers’, is pulled through the streets in a 45-foot-high chariot each July by thousands of devotees. The festival is also the original source of the word “juggeraut.”Unfortunately my visit to Puri fell far wide of this celebration, and since the temple complex at Puri is closed to non-Hindus, I could only gaze within its walls from the roof of a local “private library.” And so I entered one of the more common...
...Obama ist mein Kandidat” reads the newspaper in the stands. I’ve stopped to visit a friend in Berlin on my way to Madrid, and all around me these words are emblazoned above a photo of Hillary Clinton. “Man, I hope he wins for a couple of reasons,” I think, convinced my experience with Europeans would hinge upon his victory.Upon my arrival in Spain, I followed the election eagerly, like so many around the world. But for the time being, it’s just far-off news. What?...
...down Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, 'I'm sorry?'" After the Post story came out, a former executive editor of the New York Times revealed that he had once caught Soviet security guards meticulously checking then-Premier Leonid Brezhnev's room for hidden recording devices during his 1973 visit with Nixon. (You know, just in case...
...husband have the government buy the place in 1942 after she caught Winston Churchill wandering the White House corridors in his nightgown one night. Good hospitality makes for good diplomacy, she insisted, saying the White House had simply become too crowded. Even so, she later joked of Churchill's visit: "Such fun." It was purchased...
...mails, hundreds of thousands of YouTube views and a new social-networking site created by his Inaugural committee. "I will ask all Americans to make a renewed commitment to serving their community and their country," the President-elect announced this week in a video posted online. "Just visit USAService.org to find service projects in your community, or even organize your own around the causes you care about." (See 21 ways to serve America...