In a twist of nomenclature that would seem implausible in fiction, a craft carrying Col. Ilan Ramon of the Israeli Air Force apparently broke up over an East Texas town called Palestine. NYT, 2/2/03 Omens, good and bad, are sent to us like beacons to facilitate our navigation in the sea of troubles, said the […]
Thomas Hardy would have loved it but things are changing. And even in a quiet English country town the feeling is growing: things are not quite right
The East celebrated Easter in May, a long time after the West this year. There was little of the festive spirit, as the Nativity Church of Bethlehem had been besieged for a month. Starved priests and laity had laid in the grotto where the Virgin gave birth to Christ; bodies of policemen slain by Israeli […]