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MCLEAN, VA. Southern belles from Temple St. Clair's home state swoon over her Vine Granulated ring ($1,400), available at Saks Fifth Avenue...
...reason is the vivid and accurate representation of the unique landscape of the southern Appalachian Mountains, my home. From the pervasive, heavy scent of honeysuckle to the soft moistness of the morning air, Kingsolver captures the essence of an Appalachian summer...
...from the award-winning “Poisonwood Bible,” published two years before “Prodigal Summer.” Like “Poisonwood,” the newer novel explores the relationship between people and the land they live on, this time in southern Appalachia. Kingsolver interweaves three story strands set in the fictional Zebulon County near the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. In this small farming community on the edge of a great forest, the contact between human and nature is still immediate and meaningful...
...over a fifth of the scholarships awarded for 2007. As prestigious as the scholarships are, however, they do not boast an innocent history. When Cecil J. Rhodes died in 1902, he left behind the endowment that funds his namesake scholarships to this day and a legacy of exploitation in Southern Africa, where he made a fortune mining diamonds. A champion of British colonialism, Rhodes supported military expansions of British influence in Africa, earning the condemnation of many of his contemporaries. Does the fact that the scholarships are funded from the coffers of Rhodes’ imperialist tendencies somehow diminish...
...Since 1991 Reform Judaism has allowed gay rabbis and same-sex commitment ceremonies, a position probably slightly to the left of the Episcopal Church of the USA. Orthodoxy, on the other hand, regards homosexuality as deviant, and gay Orthodox Jews are as closeted as they are in, say, the Southern Baptist Convention. Until today Conservatism followed Orthodoxy?s legal lead, based in part on the biblical injunction that ?You shall not lie with a man as with a woman.? But many Conservative congregations have openly gay members, and pro-gay-rights sentiment is on the rise, especially among younger Jews...