Word: visitations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more political humor, visit time.com/cartoons
...lives in a small house in Connecticut that when I visit is covered with unusually elaborate Halloween decorations. Chast has a husband, two children--one of whom is picking a banjo upstairs--and two very vocal parrots that say things like "Waffles!" and "Look, damn it!" and, for some reason, "What a big toast!" For 28 years, she has sent half a dozen ideas to the New Yorker every Tuesday and then waited to see which would be accepted. True to her characters, she gets very anxious about it. "It does not get any easier. At all. It's horrible...
...Israel in Boston. Shlein-Michael, who received a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in 2000, has already spoken at Mt. Holyoke, Middleburry, Dartmouth, and Boston College Law School. Harvard Students for Israel president Rebecca M. Rohr ’08 introduced the visit as “particularly timely” in light of the ongoing events in the region...
...Dead in Oaxaca, everything is in limbo. Mexican tradition has the souls of the dead returning to visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...currently listed as "duty status whereabouts unknown." Family members of the 41-year-old Iraqi-American from Ann Arbor, Mich., say he was nabbed by a gang claiming to be from the Mahdi Army while he was on an unauthorized trip outside the fortified Green Zone to visit his wife in Baghdad...