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A look at the modern bar mitzvah from the outside
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It's been said that when it comes to raising children, the days go slow and the years go fast. As I find myself in the thick of planning for my second son to become a bar mitzvah, these words ring all too true. But who has time for sentimentalism when you've got to pull off a colossal bar mitzvah bash in less than a year?!
The first item on my party-planning agenda was to secure the entertainment.
"Bar Mitzvahs R Us," said a perky voice on the telephone.
"I'd like to know if you have availability on April 7th, please," I inquired, cordially.
"2009 or 2010?"
"2008," I answered, panic rising.
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DEMOCRATS EMBRACE RACIST PAST AT VANCE-AYCOCK FUNDRAISER
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service
; ...this weekend at their annual "Vance-Aycock Celebration," a dinner...segregationist politicians - Governors Zebulon Baird Vance and Charles Brantley Aycock. Democrats...What Scholars Say About Governor Vance: Gordon B. McKinney, author...
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City of Oaks, and weed
Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly
; ...but North Carolina's Civil War-era politician Zebulon Baird Vance is present, in his statuary form, and he is decked...ends. A man yells, "Smoke weed!" In front of the Vance statue, Richard Michael, a 41 -year-old man dressed...
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A Push for D.C. Representation in Capitol's Vaunted Statuary Hall
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; If there's room for Zebulon Baird Vance of North Carolina and Uriah Milton Rose of Arkansas, if it's important that South Dakota be represented by William Henry Harrison...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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N. Carolina is a historic haven
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...period. Two sites in the mountains honor old and modern influences on the state. The Weaverville birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance interprets the frontier period when the former governor and senator lived. In Asheville, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial...
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Fact and fiction blend in ghost tale.(The Dallas Morning News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...historical portion splinters into two stories that intersect only during a chance meeting between the main characters, Zebulon Vance Baird and Malinda "Sam" Blalock. Zeb rose from a mountain childhood of poverty and pulled himself through law school...
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 "The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Fact and fiction blend in ghost tale.
Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; ...historical portion splinters into two stories that intersect only during a chance meeting between the main characters, Zebulon Vance Baird and Malinda "Sam" Blalock. Zeb rose from a mountain childhood of poverty and pulled himself through law school...
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