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...“Whenever I meet another chancellor, this is what we talk about,” says Carol Christ, the top official at Berkeley....
...Speaking of the 12 days of Christmas, the eponymous carol can serve as a risk analysis for the modern household’s holiday supply logistics challenge. It tells a story of two halves....
...Upon closer inspection we do see the symbolism of Christ’s presence. In the top left corner of the canvas is a shelf on the wall with a jug on it....
...But you wouldn’t blame Jesus Christ for the Spanish Inquisition. I think it’s the same analogy. If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he’d be first to be in the gulag.”...
...Along Sukhumvit Road in central Bangkok are ornate Yuletide displays with carols pumped out at aggressive volumes....
...There are long-lost Scottish carols (“Christ Has My Heart, Ay”), popular songs with a gentle jazz swing (“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”, “Silent Night”), and a couple of her own originals, “Find Hope” and...
...In the past year, for example, I have dined upon the stage of La Scala, I have taken in the panoramic beauty of Rio as an exclusive guest of Christ the Redeemer atop Mount Corcovado in Brazil....
...But the current version, which clearly celebrates the Nativity (“And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ/ To be our sweet Saviour”), could in fact be far from ancient....
...You can go back way into human history, so the rise of China, before the birth of Christ was significant for later Western development....
...In the Anglo-Saxon poem “The Dream of the Rood”, the crucifixion is narrated by the cross on which Christ died....
...In the hands of the scouts, this means Arabised takes on Scottish airs, hymns and Christmas carols, and Palestinian traditional and patriotic songs....
...Mike Hobart vortexjazz.co.uk, 020 7254 4097 Kate Rusby, December 6, St George’s Hall, Bradford, then touring For the past few years, Kate Rusby has celebrated Advent with a tour of traditional carols....
...On YouTube, a South Korean woman displays her paintings of hell, having been taken there one fateful day by Jesus Christ himself....
...The half-century since Plath’s death has been marked by two new Plath biographies and an edition of her poems selected by Carol Ann Duffy....
...Carol Mavor offers “An Alicious Annotated Fairy Tale”, a story with footnotes centred on a photograph of “Nancy” taken by the US photographer Emmet Gowin in Danville, Virginia, in 1969....
...The term “Happy Holidays” is meant to cover at least three religious festivals – the birth of Christ, the Jewish holy days of Hanukkah and the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa....
...Yet, by showing the power of myth and the hold that mystery has over our minds, it pointed up the poverty of a Christmas schedule that was all schedule …and no Christ....
...For their Winter Festival, organisers have attracted a number of distinguished names for a diverse programme of events, including concerts, carols and jazz sessions....
...The partridge, on the same interpretation, is Christ....
...“Yes, you think, Christ this is going very well and people seem delighted with it. But at the same time you think yourself that it’s not very good....
...Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward by David Prerau Granta £14.99, 224 pages “The clocks slid back an hour,” Carol Ann Duffy laments in “Mean Time”, “and stole light from my life / as I...
...Charlotte Church will sing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” against the backdrop of a stained glass window of Christ on the cross....
...Vita de Waal, Executive Director, Foundation for Gaia, UK Walden Bello (Dr), Executive Director, Focus on the Global South, Thailand Wallace Ryan Kuroiwa, Minister and Team leader, United Church of Christ...
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