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Columbus Day and Yom Kippur fell on the same day this year, but the few bona fide Italian icons who portray those in desperate need of atonement were not celebrating. Cast members of HBO's THE SOPRANOS were disinvited from riding in New York City's Columbus Day parade following protests from Italian-American groups. "The Sopranos is guilty of damaging the image and character of an estimated 20 million Italian Americans by using their religion, customs and values in a violent and immoral context," claims the coalition, which recently named show creator David Chase "Pasta-tute of the Year...
More than 200 people gathered on the steps of Widener Library on the chilly afternoon of Yom Kippur...
After a month of pre-announcements, preemptive strikes, and plenty of nail-biting over oil prices and the euro - a month that's hacked away nearly a fifth of the NASDAQ index's value - the third-quarter earnings season finally comes to Wall Street. After Monday's Yom Kippur/Columbus Day wasteland, in which a middling-to-down day showed signs of life in stocks like day-trader favorites Juniper and JDS Uniphase but a sort of languid absenteeism in almost everything else, investors will get a chance starting Tuesday to place their bets...
...hustles whom, how? What's the game? Barak issues a bristling ultimatum: Arafat must stop all the violence by the end of Yom Kippur. Well, Barak does not say it that way; he says, "Forty-eight hours." Or else, Barak makes known, the full weight of Israeli military force will do the stopping...
...Damascus or met him in neutral Geneva. They worried about elections and deadlines; a dictator, he never worried about the clock ticking. He was legendary for his marathon negotiating sessions and infuriating intransigence. But it was his actions that so befuddled American leaders. Syria helped lead the 1973 Yom Kippur War against Israel; in 1976, it marched into Lebanon and never left. Assad's Syria has been a stalwart of the State Department's terrorism list since its inception in 1979--but it was also part of the anti-Iraq coalition that fought in the Gulf...