His celebratory words marking its 250th anniversary included not only the traditional paeans to the Founders but also a dose of personal grievance, plus soaring praise for his own achievements.
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Susan Page,
USA Today,
5 July 2026
Alas, all those paeans to freedom have played out better in song than in real life.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.
The full album is coming out on December 4, which will give everybody something fun to listen to instead of Christmas carols.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
5 Oct. 2026
Paul drove into Wilkes-Barre from Princeton on Christmas Day after the chapel service and dropped his bags at a forlorn motor lodge on Public Square—Christmas carols dragging at slow speed on its sound system—and swung by my parents.
During a recent morning visit, large groups of Jewish worshippers circumambulated the holy site under close police guard, singing psalms at full volume and openly praying.
—
Ilan Ben Zion,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Oct. 2026
Psalm 23 is numbered Psalm 22 in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate because of differences in how the psalms are divided and numbered.
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Frannie Comstock,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 Aug. 2026
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