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The line at Starbucks was long, but I happen to enjoy its extremely overpriced coffee, so there I stood. And because it’s the holidays we do our darndest to conjure up the Christmas spirit, so I used my best Clint Eastwood voice and said quietly to the woman in line in front of me, ȁ#x201c;If you order six items I’m gonna have you killed. |
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Mary was honoured with an MBE in 1973, a CBE in 1990, became a Dame Commander (DBE) in 2000 and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) four years ago. In 2017 she was made a Dame of the Order of Saint John (DStJ). Another fantastic achievement this year was hitting her £1m fundraising.... |
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Christmas is strange. Religiously, it unites the human and the divine in a little child. “God’s infinity/dwindled to infancy,” as the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said. “Christ brings together things thought opposite and incompatible,” he said elsewhere, and so does the season that commemorates his birth. |
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Comedy. I’ll Get This Christmas Special The stilted but fun-ish show where celebs play games over dinner, and the loser pays the bill, ups the ante with a boozy special. Gregg Wallace and Les Dennis are among the combatants. Thursday 19 December, 10pm, BBC Two. |
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You never know where people will find inspiration. Beginning Saturday, SYFY will air short documentary films in a series called “Looking for Leia” (11 p.m. and 11:13 p.m. Saturday). Each film profiles women who were motivated to emulate Carrie Fisher’s character Princess Leia from the “Star Wars” movie franchise. |
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“I THINK AT the training in 1990,” says one of the star’s of Cork’s season in 1990, Mark Foley, “one particular couple of weeks, it was a dry summer, very good weatherwise, and there was a couple of nights down the Park where the Canon [Fr Michael O"Brien] put out 40 or 50 sliotars and he’d have.... |
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Police and security staff have been mounting a reassuring visible presence in Birmingham city centre after a After two teenagers suffered serious injuries in the Wednesday afternoon attack (December 18) people were out in force knowing there were just four more full shopping days left before Christmas. |
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Unlike Polish conservatism, the Croatian one is fighting a hard battle for survival both internally and externally. The fact that the Croatian conservative party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which has strong connections with the Catholic Church, suffers from “severe patriotism” (in the words of.... |
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Skeletons have come out of the closet once more for this election campaign. This time, however, with new strength and a new face. The usual for Croatian election campaigns is the two large parties accusing each other for crimes in the distant past Communist dictatorship and Ustashian state. |
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You hear them in the supermarket. You hear them in shopping malls, and lifts, on the radio, and on the streets. You know the season from the songs about Christmas that are inescapable for several weeks each year. There is everything from classical to jazz and rock, as well as cheerful, funky,.... |
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CATHEDRALS. Armagh - St Patrick’s Church of Ireland FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT --10am (Holy Communion), 11am (Sung Eucharist) and 3:15pm (Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols). LOOKING AHEAD, Christmas Eve, First Evensong of Christmas with the Dedication of the Crib at 5pm. Christmas Day -Holy Communion at 10am and Sung Eucharist at 11am. |
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