Word: columbus
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...Columbus at Lg. Bch., SCBS...
...manages to pass without comment. Every kid loves Halloween, but enthusiasm for the holiday among the young is no excuse for dismissing it as "childish" rather than examining it seriously. Halloween is seen as a fact of life, an amusing bench-mark in the celebratory vacancy that stretches from Columbus Day to Veterans Day. But history has some explaining to do when it comes to Halloween; its prominent place in the American calendar requires some justification. Indeed, it's a strange bird...
...published a letter in a Jewish newspaper describing a Messinger mayoralty as an utter nightmare. While Giuliani distanced himself from this attack, he later implied that Messinger (who is Jewish) does not care about the city's Italian-American and Roman Catholic communities because she did not attend the Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and dropped out of the city's holiday parade early (comments for which he later apologized...
...Columbus Day parade has been run by 85-year-old nuns for the past 50 years and now 20-year-olds are starting to step up," he said...
...event was designed to convey the message that "Columbus Day is not a day of celebration for Native Americans," she said, adding that Columbus's 1492 arrival in the North American continent "started the decimation of Native Americans in the Americas...