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The ceasefire brokered from Wednesday morning promised a mere 48 hours of relief even if it were honoured, and in practice observance has been patchy.

This new annual observance has been established to celebrate the life and legacy of Ms. Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics in 1968 and remained a driving force for disability rights throughout her life.

Discreet atheism and pragmatic observance have been the general rule.

The release of the list before the observance had been requested by several news organizations, including The New York Times.

He said that earlier sanctions observance had been spotty with many European energy companies working in Iran.

Since the destruction of the Second Temple, Shavuot observances have been dominated by its commemorative aspect.

Though events went smoothly last week, some observances have been marred by exchanges of insults.

If anything, the observances have been expanding and are likely to grow still more in 2011, the centennial year.

Abraham Lincoln first proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving in 1863, but local and state observances had been common for decades, especially in the North, and people had been gradually attaching the celebrations to a heavily embellished picture of the three-day feast the Pilgrims enjoyed with the local Indians in 1621.

Without such a determination of the nature of this good, one could easily have the impression that morality is simply obedience to a set of rules or laws the observance of which has been labeled, more or less arbitrarily, good.

Advent, which marks the beginning of our journey toward the observance of Good Friday, has been obscured by the shopping "holiday" of Black Friday.