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There has been precious little talk, and none in high places, about how America should rethink its role in world affairs, although the usual lip service is paid to the need for a change. There has been a refusal to admit that the next Administration must infuse billions of dollars into our cities to accomplish what the platform rhetoric claims the GOP wants to accomplish...
...Precious Jewel. The Sabbath, on which manual labor is forbidden, presents another challenge for the kosher housewife. Friday is usually a day of frenzied activity-cleaning, shopping, preparing meals in advance for the tranquility and family intimacy of Saturday. There are some personal satisfactions. At sundown, after the wife lights the candles preceding the traditional Sabbath-eve dinner (typical menu: gefilte fish, matzoh-ball soup, chicken or beef, potato kugel), the husband often chants an ancient song of praise for his wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than...
With the wrapped-in-cotton care normally accorded to precious art works, James Earl Ray was flown to Memphis last week to stand trial for the murder of Martin Luther King...
...Precious Lord...
...Precious Lord, take my hand...