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Blazers Edge (Free subscription) | yesterday
Advisory : This post is ridiculously long. Read it or don't, just please don't complain about its length in the comments. ------------------------------------------- Backdrop Some time has passed since I wrote " the Eggers piece " and, as you might have noticed, i haven't commented on it since then. There's a simple reason for that: I said what I had to say. That chaper is done. However, with those...
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A mother from Gaza (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I met Mazen before I really knew him. It was a beautiful breezy summer afternoon here in mountainous Asheville, North Carolina, where Yassine has a rotation for the summer. Yassine took Yousuf and Noor to the park. I caught up with them, only to discover Yousuf had meandered off with a little girl he’d befriended to get some ice cream with her mother. “It’s that hypnotic music-they hear the truck and...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Perhaps it’s no surprise to any of you who endure Friday Buzzkills week after week, but I’m something of a fatalist. And as...
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Media Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some good ones: quot;After a quick meet-and-greet with King Abdullah, Obama was off to Israel, where he made a quick stop at the manger in Bethlehem w... . . .
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Bethlehem, the young people of the Al Harra theatre troup act out their often fraught daily lives on stage. Also on our culture programme: a film about Russia's legendary ballerinas.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BETHLEHEM - It's been curiously uneventful up here for the first 4 days of Eagles training camp. The logjam of traffic that typically heads up the Northeast Extension, through Quakertown and into Lehigh University has been nonexistent.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Swarms of annoying gnats were swatted away by the Eagles' veterans as they checked into their dormitory rooms late yesterday afternoon at Lehigh University.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Andy Reid declared this week that it sure would be nice to have a training camp without distractions.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - For one day, Lito Sheppard was the second coming of the Silent Storm. Silent, because on a day when Brian Westbrook and Shawn Andrews made noisy news, Sheppard slipped quietly into the Eagles' training camp.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BETHLEHEM - Six years ago, Brian Westbrook chugged up to the hilltop Lehigh dorms driving his mom's 1993 Buick LeSabre. It was red, more or less. The third-round rookie from Villanova told reporters he was relieved to have made it there from Maryland, in a car that had clocked 300,000 miles. An ill-timed accident in the Lexus that Westbrook had bought with some of his signing bonus meant borrowing...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Andy Reid declared this week that it sure would be nice to have a training camp without distractions.
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Washington News Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
24.07.08 Bethlehem / PNN - A Spanish court issued arrest warrants for seven high ranking Israeli officials for war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip in 2002. An Israeli airstrike targeting the house of Palestinian activist Salah Shehada killed at least 14 other Palestinians, including children, and injured many more in the 2002 bombing. Gaza City's Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) filed...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
When John McCain descended on a Bethlehem, Penn. grocery store, the unscheduled campaign stop quickly became a theater for the absurd.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007. He told reporters during an unscheduled stop in a super market that, what the Bush administration calls "the surge" was actually "made up of a number...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Republican John McCain pushed back yesterday against Democratic criticism that he had misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements had been put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.
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raimondo | 12/31/2007
Saint Joseph, Foster Father of Jesus Catherine Fournier Saint Joseph Husband of Mary, Foster Father of Jesus, Feast Day: March 19, May 1 Patron of: the Universal Church, Belgium, Canada, China and Peru, of workers (May 1st), fathers, the poor and craftsmen, and of a happy death. Symbol: Infant Jesus, monstrance, chalice,cross, lamb, Bible, ladder, tools, dove, lily, rod, plane,carpenter's square Young
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raimondo | 12/31/2007
Written by Rusty Wright The Christmas Story: Does It Still Matter? Rusty Wright What does Christmas mean to you? Times with family and friends? Perhaps carols, cards, television specials. Maybe hectic shopping, parties, and eating too much. All these and more are part of North American Christmas. But what about the first Christmas? Why is the original story—the baby in a manger, shepherds, wise men,
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raimondo | 12/31/2007
The Star of Bethlehem Written by Dr. Ray Bohlin The Magi and the Star of Bethlehem O, Star of wonder, star of night Star of royal beauty bright Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to thy perfect light. This familiar and haunting chorus from the Christmas carol, "We Three Kings of Orient Are," introduces us to what seems to be the only ubiquitous biblical symbol during the Christmas season,
