Word: visite
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Every year many pilgrims continue the tradition. When I went to Rome during Holy Week to join the Easter celebrations, my happiness extended beyond my dreams of the Yankees winning the World Series. To those who make the journey, this Holy City offers reasons for faith. Pilgrims can visit the Basilica of St. John Lateran and climb (on their knees) the "Holy Steps" of Pontius Pilate's palace which Jesus traversed several times on the day he was condemned and crucified. Less dominating, but more profound, in the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, large pieces of the crosses...
...collection's title story, Englander follows the sufferings of an Orthodox man who must seek alternative satisfaction when his wife refuses to make love to him. Finding his sexual desires "unbearable," Dov Binyamin receives a "special dispensation" from the Rebbe to visit a prostitute. In theory, this excused adultery will save the marriage by reducing sexual pressure. Not surprisingly, the Rebbe's solution causes as many problems as it solves, and after a series of funny and uncomfortable dialogues with two prostitutes and a cab driver, the story ends with a sorrowfully ironic twist rather similar to that...
Most demonstrators were from the Boston area,although they came from all over New England toattend Zhu's visit...
Most demonstrators were from the Boston area, although they came from all over New England to attend Zhu's visit...
...visit to MIT was the last stop on his nine-day, six-city U.S. tour expected to draw protests of China's human rights abuses...