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As we celebrate Labor Day across the country today, it’s both fun and instructive to take a look at its origins and evolutions over more than a century.

No one knows exactly who invented Labor Day.  There’s symbolic merit in this ...Read more

In the United States, the decision to get married is made by two individuals, but the marriage is imbedded in community.  In the company of family and friends, the couple makes a statement of love, commitment, caring and endurance.  They ...Read more

It seems fitting to comment on the two columns we have posted this week, since they are not our usual fare.  Adele Wick’s piece quotes extensively from the Nobel-Prize-winning British Earl, writer, philosopher, mathematician and pacifist, Bertrand Russell.  The second ...Read more

In this week after the 4th of July holiday, 2010, the east coast of the United States broils in a heat wave.  Nature exerts its pressure on us to slow down, to take a moment to linger in the shade, ...Read more

About one month ago something suspicious caught the eye of a French police officer patrolling the in the village Louvroil, in northern France .  He spotted a figure wearing a burqua behind the wheel of an automobile.

Now, the French police ...Read more