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2 Jun 2007, 7:58 am
If Washington D.C. as a whole resembles the places I go when I get off the bicycle trail, it's an urban mecca of ethnic dining and upscale shopping. [read post]
28 May 2007, 6:45 am
As CommonWealth magazine reported: If the Legislature does give communities the power to levy their own meals tax on top of the state’s 5% take, it could be a boon not only to Boston and Cambridge but also to Cape Cod and the Berkshires, as well as the shopping meccas of Burlington and Saugus. [read post]
26 May 2007, 3:00 pm
A Sri Lankan Christian, Nirosh Kamanda, came to Saudi Arabia to work as a truck driver, and secretly moved to Mecca to sell goods near the Grand Mosque. [read post]
24 May 2007, 2:13 pm
In the almost 21 months since Katrina, south Mississippi has gone from being a retirement mecca to a community that's struggling to meet the needs of its seniors. [read post]
9 May 2007, 2:18 pm
Published by the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the release said that CAIR approved of the special training that 45,000 TSA workers received about Islamic traditions related to a Mecca pilgrimage known as Hajj. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 8:03 pm
They're a mecca for tax fraud. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 11:38 am
The slide stems from the confluence of long-simmering factors that are now feeding off each other, including the demise of specialty music retailers like longtime music mecca Tower Records. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 10:03 pm
As I was prepping for my trip to music mecca tomorrow (SXSW in Austin), I was checking out various music blogs to catch up on some of the 1,300 acts playing. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 7:01 pm
For many professionals, he explains, “New York is the mecca.” Yeah, maybe. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 5:51 am
Florida is, as often described, a Mecca for retirees. [read post]
7 Jan 2007, 8:49 pm
But as he flew over Baghdad's darkened suburbs, he can have known little of the last-minute battle waged between top Iraqi and American officials — and among the Americans themselves — over whether the execution, fraught with legal ambiguities and Islamic religious sensitivities, should go ahead.American opposition to executing him in haste centered partly on the fact that the Id al-Adha religious holiday, marking the end of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to… [read post]
30 Dec 2006, 4:40 pm
" MORE: Some rather muted "outrage" in Mecca. [read post]
30 Dec 2006, 10:29 am
In the tradition of Greil Marcus, here's the Outside Counsel "Real Life Top Ten" for 2006:My visit to the Mecca of Rock'n'Roll, Sun Studeo;Revisiting the Snopes novels; Hopleaf, and how I found it;The end of New York State's judicial nominating conventions, and an overdue merit appointment for a quality jurist;A perfect summer weekend;Squeaky Wheel's "Portraits of Main Street";Portland, Maine for the National Invitational Rugby Tournament; … [read post]
26 Dec 2006, 7:02 am
The Health Ministry has over 9,600 medical personnel on hand to deal with medical issues, and has set up 21 field hospitals in Mecca and Medina. [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 12:00 pm
IT'S ABOUT TIME: Marching to Mecca for gay rights! [read post]
2 Nov 2006, 9:25 am
Here are a few:Overheard at WesternOverheard in New YorkOverheard Lines (in San Fran)Overheard at the Mecca (Howard Uni)I'm still waiting for an "Overheard at Queen's" blog. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
And traditional Muslims place it in Mecca. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
During a February congressional hearing on the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, discussion turned—as it invariably does—to the detention facility’s role in jihadist propaganda. [read post]
