To the Editor: Jordan Hruska's moving account in his article "Down the Eastern Shore" (July 12) of a Maryland tradition failed to mention that the tradition itself is in grave danger.
Core Communities, a major developer in Port St . Lucieand nearby Tradition, failed to pay its annual fee to the county to maintain the naming rights on Tradition Field, the Mets' spring training stadium.
The tradition commemorates the life and death of the ancient Chinese poet and reformer Qu Yuan, who drowned himself to protest government policies; attempts to rescue him by boat failed, and the tradition of boat racing began.
Rangers had been forced to play two extra games after letting the Championship runners-up slot slip and the Ibrox faithful made it clear to their players before kick-off it was time to step up to the mark as they unveiled a banner stretching across the width of the Broomloan Road stand reading "No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him".
Because received tradition has failed them, the women create new spiritual rituals — for birth, death, healing and exorcising demons, among other things.
Kaufman said he tried to get other fans to bounce up and down and shake the RFK stands -- a D.C. tradition -- and failed.
Emissaries have been sent to try to convince the former governor of the importance of this tradition, but failed to move him.
Mauricio is now suing the fraternity for negligence, alleging that Alpha Epsilon Pi's national leadership knew about the "Scumbag of the Week" tradition but failed to put a stop to it.
Last March, when American warplanes and cruise missiles started bombing the palaces of Saddam Hussein, Mr. Kim broke a seven-year tradition and failed to appear at the appointed time and place to inaugurate the annual session of his nation's rubber stamp Parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly.
When Habermas (1953) publicly called for an explanation from Heidegger, the latter's silence confirmed Habermas's conviction that the German philosophical tradition had failed in its moment of reckoning, providing intellectuals with the resources neither to understand nor to criticize National Socialism.
