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… and a rejection of anyone who didn’t share the same ideals. Saudi Arabia’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of … a whore, an outcast, licentious, immoral, rebellious, disobedient, Westernized, a traitor and double agent to boot. …
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… South Indian Food Theresa Seelye (Source Material: @Istock.com/Brytta) Hotel Saravana Bhavan is one of the newer … January at this Saravana Bhavan on Lexington Avenue at 26th Street in New York I enjoyed something of a parental … in South Asian groceries and supplies. But the special ingredient in both, my aunts will all tell you quite firmly, is a …
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… After church that Sunday, on the way to the Mumfords, I complained to Grandmama that my slacks were so tight I had … or “po’” to talk about anything other than people’s bodies. Without knocking, the po’ white boy opened the door of … black women in the church made up the majority of the audience. But their voices and words were only heard during …
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… which isn’t a surprise given climate change, but is unwelcome given the city-wide dearth of air-conditioning and … on, listening to Germans laugh, yell, and sing to “Single Ladies.” My friend was having her party in a stadium that had … 9 p.m. , making its very slow way overnight past the checkpoints until reaching the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof at the …
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… than down. Perhaps even then I knew these matters were complicated. For if left was the dark and descending … children to come unto him, but that he had suffered and died amid so many splendid Roman armaments, the breastplates … previewing my list of caveats, she responded to one of my points by reminding me that the Apostle Paul had commanded …
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… when she played excerpts of Gregorian chant and the madrigals and motets of Michael Praetorius, John Dowland, Giovanni … many other late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century composers. These works all took root in my growing awareness … best show of my life Tuesday night and all thanks to the audience, a thousand Mennonites and their neighbors in a small …