Because they couldn't find three wise men and one virgin.
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The first "college" professors were said to be sophists, wise men.
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When artists argue with critics, wise men and women seek shelter.
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Wise men and astrologers throughout the empire try and fail to decode the dream to the intense dismay of the king, who, in a fit of rage, orders the slaughter of all wise men in his kingdom.
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Senate's foreign policy wise men, he might have been an interesting Democratic
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Faced with another crossroads, Johnson called on the Wise Men once again.
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Patton Oswalt also is one of the "Three Wise Men" of The Circle.
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Long one of finance's wise men, he has been sick for several months.
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The wise men would say, "This isn't sound thinking," but somehow commas trump everything.
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World War II and cold war "wise men" could be either Republicans or Democrats.
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Unlike the three wise men who supposedly saw this light and star from the East, Trump is no Magus, his administration no longer has any magi, and thus there are no wise men to stop the impending avalanche triggered by his recklessness.
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So the wise men in our society tend to be in the backwaters of academia.
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For him the world divided easily into left, right, black, white, wise men and fools.
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The three wise men could be seen gazing at him, separated by a tall barrier.
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A few brief sentences describe the meeting of the "Wise Men", the doyens of American foreign policy.
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So if CAOS' spin on the Three Wise Men have shown up for anyone, it's probably Judas.
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Today, the shepherds and wise men might be hard-pressed to recognize even the most devout celebration.
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If you buy that, then allow me an invention of my own about the three wise men.
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The Wise Men were renowned for visiting Bethlehem, but they're famous for annual pilgrimages to Manhattan, too.
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Olvera Estrada believed he was influenced by older and supposedly wise men from the town of about 20,000.
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A pessimistic briefing from the State Department helped to turn a majority of the Wise Men against escalation.
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The demons' appearance isn't the only hint "A Midwinter's Tale" drops connecting them to the Three Wise Men.
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Again,the assembled wise men and women of Washington are already sounding alarm bells over Trump's shutdown cheerleading.
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And some leading wise men — including the megabillionaire George Soros — are predicting a return to disastrous 2008 conditions.
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This was the one productive suggestion that emerged from the Wise Men meeting, and Johnson jumped on it.
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Many Christians observe Epiphany to recall the three wise men who followed a star to find baby Jesus.
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It is likely the town's evil new visitors are a twisted version of the Three Wise Men of Christianity.
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The three demons mirror the Biblical three wise men, who are also summoned by the birth of a baby.
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Personality: Once the cocky Harvard drop-out, Zuckerberg is now more apt to listen to wise men and women.
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Trump has previously chafed at aides who have been framed as wise men keeping him on the right path.
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Its hope that wise men and women will do their part is one all can share in the advent season.
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The three wise men, saddled on Segways instead of camels, carry boxes from Amazon, gifts for the modern-day Jesus.
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We study the lessons of history, read philosophy, and seek out wise men with the hope of learning what matters.
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As far as the White House and the Wise Men were concerned, the problem was principally one of public relations.
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Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann and E. J. Dionne Jr. were once known as the wise men of Washington.
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Although the Three Wise Men have become part of Christmas canon, there's precious little about them in the nativity story.
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According to the GOP's wise men, Saccone suffers from poor organization, a charisma deficit, and a lack of fundraising skills.
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In one version, the Three Wise Men stay in her comfortable home on their way to see the baby Jesus.
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I did Henry Kissinger, partly because "The Wise Men" ended with Vietnam and I wanted to try to do Vietnam.
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Hindus believe God revealed truths to wise men who passed them on for thousands of years through a rich oral tradition.
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The wise men expected Germany's economy to expand by 2 percent this year and by 2.2 percent in 2018, Handelsblatt said.
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In your fingers, and in your toes, as some wise men by the name of Wet Wet Wet once put it.
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When they walk in, some with flowing robes and turbans, they look more like ancient wise men and shepherds than inmates.
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The celebrations commemorate the journey that three wise men are said to have taken to present the baby Jesus with gifts.
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We will make it a prequel to Halberstam's 'The Best and the Brightest,' and we will call it 'The Wise Men.
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Green wrote of the 2008 Clinton campaign's internal emails: The anger and toxic obsessions overwhelmed even the most reserved Beltway wise men.
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Common sense suggests that wise men and women surely did counsel caution and Trump's performance confirms that he didn't follow their advice.
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The man and woman try on various outfits, making love while dressed as angels and Wise Men and Herod and gay shepherds.
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But the gifts, on a day marking a national tradition that closely follows Christmas, weren't delivered by the customary Three Wise Men.
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I'll be beholden to no one but US and to integrity & to the best version envisioned by imperfect, but wise, men centuries ago.
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Ms Rousseff wants to summon back a council of wise men and women, which she disbanded during her first term, to suggest reforms.
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The example set by these two wise men show us that no difference – even one that is a thousand years old – is insurmountable.
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Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect.
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Some Americans think the best way to run the economy is to appoint a few wise men and let them make the decisions.
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January 6 is Three Kings Day in Puerto Rico, or Epiphany, when Christians commemorate the arrival of wise men visiting the infant Jesus.
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" I guess he didn't want to read the rest of it: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Those bringing gifts to the baby Jesus are three magi or wise men, one of whom is frequently depicted as a black man.
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While magi were understood to be wise men from the East, one magus becomes regarded as "black" as early as the 13th century.
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His brand of mythic realism lent an irresistible luster to "The Four Wise Men," a retelling of the biblical tale of the Three Magi.
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Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King.
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NBC reported that Daniels's legal team viewed the "wise men" moniker as a reference that Cohen had consulted with Trump about the television appearance.
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I was told that the decorations remain in place until the Epiphany, when the wise men appeared before the Christ child, on January 6.
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Holiday travel sucks, and probably has ever since a bunch of shepherds, wise men, and angels converged on a stable in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.
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The Washington wise men have been steering us into one bad trade deal after another, each time promising greater prosperity and stability that never comes.
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The Nativity Story starring Oscar Isaac as Joseph, the eldest Sand Snake as the Virgin Mary, and three wisecracking wise men to leaven the mood.
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Schnabel, a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, the country's "wise men", since 2014, is considered a well-connected economic expert and skilled communicator.
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Because the supposed wise men of the age refused to fully call out the mainstream media for what they'd become, the pretense has continued for decades.
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He had called upon the "Wise Men" previously, in the summer of 1965, when final plans were nearing completion to go all-in with ground troops.
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At the start of the episode, Matt is excited by the idea of that he, John and Michael — "three wise men" — will track down their prophet.
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Or are we echoing, in our own fallen way, the gift of the Magi, the Wise Men with their gifts of incense and gold and myrrh?
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Reflecting its Latin American culture, San Antonio widely celebrates Three Kings Day, the day the three wise men presented Jesus with gifts, according to the Bible.
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Guiding the wise men of New Testament lore to the birthplace of Jesus, the star of Bethlehem has since become a planetarium and Christmas carol favorite.
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What if I told you that venture capitalists aren't soothsaying wise men who are uniquely qualified to predict the future of male and female CEOs alike?
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In Germany, children dressed up as wise men in colourful robes and gold crowns to sing carols for President Joachim Gauck outside the presidential palace in Berlin.
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And with a little inspiration from some wise men and women of the world, we can at least look forward to improving ourselves in this new year.
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King Cake "season" officially starts on January 6, when Christians celebrate Epiphany, which honors the Three Wise Men (or Kings) who traveled far to see baby Jesus.
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But these are not heartland voters so much as Beltway doyennes – the consultant and donor classes, established opinion writers, think tank officials and other Washington wise men.
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For those in New York in search of Gorey's work, the place to go was the famous Midtown bookstore the Gotham Book Mart ("Wise Men Fish Here").
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If you are a woman, you'd better be sure your hair is shiny and you can safely lead a bunch of wise men into a commercial break.
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The wise men of Wall Street and Washington, indeed around the world, confidently told us commercial engagement with China would lead to peace and prosperity for everyone.
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There are Roman sarcophagi from the fourth century which show the baby Jesus in a manger surrounded by animals or receiving gifts from the Magi or wise men.
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I have not met either of them, I met Ted Hope once, but I think they are all really wise men and there may be some women there.
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Allowing a few wise men and women to meddle with the money supply, governed by their own discretion, is more trouble than it is worth, these economists argue.
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Winfrey, Perry and 30 Rock vet Tracy Morgan will voice Deborah, Cyrus and Flexis, respectively — three wisecracking camels who happen to be traveling with the Three Wise Men.
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" But, a few hours later ... Cohen texted Davidson, "The wise men all believe the story is dying and don't think it's smart for her to do any interviews.
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Known as Epiphany, or the 12th Day of Christmas, it commemorates how a star led the Magi, or the three kings or wise men, to the baby Jesus.
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LONDON — A British bakery chain has apologized after creating a Nativity scene in which the baby Jesus, surrounded by three wise men, was replaced by a sausage roll.
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Now that Christmas is over — although, based on the Bible's chronology, the wise men wouldn't appear in Bethlehem for several more weeks — it's time for some revisionist history.
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The three wise men behind doom icons Sleep have just announced that they'll be playing a benefit show to raise funds for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shoooting.
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MONDAY • On the 12th Day of Christmas ... It's Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, marking for most Christians the arrival of the three wise men with gifts for the infant Jesus.
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Playing off the film, the puppet theater's nativity tale features silly foreign accents, particularly from the Three Wise Men, lots of jokes and slang often with a local flavor.
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In his brief remarks at the festive event, Trump invoked the story of the Three Wise Men who visited Baby Jesus in Bethlehem as told in the New Testament.
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As the Bible tells us, when the wise men had come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped him.
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He started it with his two brothers-in-law and this guy he was 50 percent sure was a doctor, but they pretended they were like 26 wise men.
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Celebrated by elders and Millennials alike, it starts on the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe (December 12) and ends on the day of The Three Wise Men (January 6).
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From the Wise Men to the Blind Mice to the Little Pigs, from Three Dog Night to Three Days Grace, from the Stooges to the Musketeers to the Holy Trinity.
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The 12 days of Christmas is the period that in Christian theology marks the span between the birth of Christ and the coming of the Magi, the three wise men.
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We visited the spectacular town of Amadiya, perched on a butte, perhaps home to the three wise men, and toured refugee centers where children had posted notes for dead parents.
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Hanks' character, alongside a thuggish-looking finance chief and a mysterious founder who drifts in and out of the action, form the three so-called wise men who run The Circle.
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On the eve of Epiphany in Spain, some children leave their shoes on windowsills or balconies or by the front door for the Magi, or wise men, to fill with gifts.
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" More than two hours later, Cohen texts Davidson: "Keith, The wise men all believe the story is dying and don&apost think it&aposs smart for her to do any interviews.
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The toys become solid and more playful in "The Wise Men," where they hover above a desert like a spacecraft, and in two works where they occupy a jutting offshore rock.
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George Bush was the last president to fight in World War II, the last veteran in the White House, and the last to have real ties to the Cold War's Wise Men.
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I mean, look, if the old guard, the so-called wise men of diplomacy knew so much, such smart guys, why are we still struggling in2018 to bring peace to the region?
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In other parts of Europe, drier methods marked the Epiphany, the biblical story of three wise men who follow a star as they travel from the East to find the baby Jesus.
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The soft-spoken Mr. Yeo is referred to by fellow comedians as one of the "wise men" of the Asian comedy scene, even though he only started performing in his early 30s.
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The three wise men arrive at the party with a prostitute as a guest, and offer snacks made of ham—which they try to sell as if it were made of soy.
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The scene consists of Joseph, Mary, the infant Jesus, angels, shepherds, animals and the three wise men, kings the Bible says followed a star in the east that led them to Bethlehem.
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Although the biblical text does not specify how many magi were present, they are thought of as the three kings or the three wise men because they brought three gifts to Jesus.
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" But less than three hours later, Cohen allegedly texted Davidson again, saying, "Keith, The wise men all believe the story is dying and don't think it's smart for her to do any interviews.
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There are two wise men that she enlists in this episode for help: a rabbi, and a homeless man named Horse (Brendan Sexton III), both of whom lend at least a little wisdom.
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Manger aside, the baby Jesus may have been swaddled in pleasant and pricey fragrances, thanks to the presents that the Bible says were given to him by the Wise Men of the East.
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And before speaking, listening to the stone and the flowers; to older women and wise men; to the queer community; to critical voices in the mainstream; to the whispers and warnings of nature.
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The congress was held in a Lutheran church not far from the city's Gothic cathedral—one of Germany's oldest pilgrimage sites, where the bones of the Three Wise Men are said to lie.
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American leaders and elites — the "wise men," as they were known for decades; "the blob," as they would be called less generously today — consciously rejected the isolationist attitudes that had prevailed in the 21945s.
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Among the more encouraging examples of philosopher fathers was the Stoic Epictetus, who, at an old age, adopted a friend's child and angrily defied Epicurus's assertion that wise men should not bring up children.
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" In places, Watts's book reads almost like "The Wise Men," Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas's portrait of the Cold War establishment, only the Kennedy men are a hipper early 1960s version — "The Cool Guys.
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"We've seen most of the impact of QE (Quantitative Easing) last year and there is little more to come," said Lars Feld, one of the 'wise men' that advise the German government on economic policy.
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"The German current account surplus is high, but this does not signal a macroeconomic imbalance," Christoph Schmidt, head of the panel of 'wise men' said, adding that demands such as increasing public investment were misleading.
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In that display, Jesus represented the children being separated from their parents at the border, the parish's pastor, Father Stephen Josoma, told CBS News, and the wise men represented migrants stuck behind a border wall.
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Hundreds of thousands of people attend the traditional parades each year on the eve of the feast of the Epiphany on January 6, which celebrates the coming of three wise men to bring gifts to Jesus.
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Socrates called it "a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder …" But his disciple, Plato, was less admiring of democracy's "variety;" he preferred Kallipolis, an aristocratic order governed by "philosopher kings" (the wise men).
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Christoph Schmidt, head of Germany's panel of economic advisers - known as the wise men - warned that private investors' losses from bitcoin investments could have a ripple effect on financial markets if they were financed with debt.
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In On Site Opera's production of Menotti's gentle "Amahl and the Night Visitors," the three wise men seek shelter at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, where audience members are invited to donate nonperishable goods (Dec. 4-8).
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The 'wise men' reiterated that they viewed the European Central Bank's monetary policy as "too expansionary" in light of the economic development in the euro zone, adding that the resulting risks for financial stability were rising further.
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And a game where Stalin and Marx are a gay couple and have a baby on Christmas, but they're paranoid about social workers taking it, so they shoot sheep and the three wise men with a shotgun.
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The multiuse space, which was formerly Wise Men, opened in March and wants to become a Parisian-style brunch spot and a pop-up for rotating restaurants, along with its current incarnation as a late-night bar.
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - One of the world's largest limestone caves, the Postojna Cave in western Slovenia, is a long way from a stable in Bethlehem, but its traditional living nativity is getting more than shepherds and wise men visiting.
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The call to effectively curb the ECB's freedom to act comes in a report published by the so-called 'Kronberg Circle', which includes two of the German government's economic advisors or 'wise men' - Lars Feld and Volker Wieland.
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This has led apologists to insist that they were all there; it's just that somebody sitting on one side of the stable could see only the shepherds, and another witness across the way saw only the wise men.
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That's why trade policy is Exhibit A, B and C in Woodward's j'accuse charging the President Trump is dangerous because he just doesn't understand what all the Wise Men of Washington and Wall Street know to be true.
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"Regarding Brexit, we see hardly any economic effects in the short term, of course we see the biggest (impact) on the United Kingdom itself," Christoph Schmidt, head of the so-called wise men, said during a news conference.
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The "wise men" of the liberal elite have duly informed the American people as to how they should think, nonstop, for months, yet the American people have responded with a shrug and moved on with their daily lives.
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Most presidents reach outside their circle of advisers inside the White House to get outside perspectives, but presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said past presidents have typically used relied on former government officials and "so-called wise men" for advice.
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JOSEPH MILLARDLondon As one of the octogenarians who "fiddles with my hearing aid and takes afternoon naps" ("Three wise men", January 9th), I wonder what the age limit is in order to avoid being ridiculed by your young reporters?
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The lawsuit alleges that one of the "wise men" referenced by Cohen in the text is Trump himself and that the President therefore was aware of the efforts to get Daniels to deny the alleged affair on Hannity's show.
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In their annual report, seen by Handelsblatt newspaper, the five "wise men" who advise the German government on economic policy said the economy, which they expected to expand strongly this year and next, was moving gradually into a "boom phase".
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A Massachusetts church captured headlines earlier this month for putting a baby Jesus doll in a cage as the three wise men were cut off from the rest of the scene by a fence to protest against Trump's immigration policies.
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"I would describe Barr as a cross between Mr. Wolfe, the fixer in 'Pulp Fiction,' and one of the wise men-type upper-crust figures who believe they protect and shape America," said Ketan Jhaveri, a former Justice Department official.
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Among these were Grandmaster Flash (born in Bridgetown, Barbados) and the family of Afrika Bambaataa (born to parents of Jamaican and Bajan descent) who along with DJ Kool Herc would form the three wise men who heralded the birth of hip hop.
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Orthodox believers across Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and elsewhere celebrate the epiphany, a Christian holiday celebrating Jesus's visit by the three wise men and his later baptism in the River Jordan, by plunging into bodies of water, often in temperatures far below freezing.
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I have suggested here for several years that these issues be addressed by an idea that started with the great post-war ambassador, the "wisest of the wise men" as he has been called, George Kennan, known as the father of containment.
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The EPP has said it will send a group of "wise men" to investigate conditions in Hungary and decide whether to keep Fidesz among its ranks, a process that new EPP Chairman Donald Tusk expects to close by the end of January.
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The EPP has said it would send a group of "wise men" to investigate conditions in Hungary and decide whether to keep Fidesz among its ranks, a process that new EPP Chairman Donald Tusk expects to close by the end of January.
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The EPP has said it would send a group of "wise men" to investigate conditions in Hungary and decide whether to keep Fidesz among its ranks, a process that new EPP Chairman Donald Tusk expects to close by the end of January.
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The alleged wise men of the center keep imagining that the problem with Trumpism is just its vulgarity and race-baiting, and that a benevolent technocrat could step in and lead the country out of gridlock and polarization, into the broad, sunlit uplands of reform.
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The most vivid example is provided by the 21968 so-called "wise men" who in March 21968 urged LBJ to begin to disengage from Vietnam; they were all male, white, and with two exceptions (Abe Fortas, a Jew, and Robert Murphy, a Catholic), Protestant.
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In the image, the three wise men kneel before Jesus to present him with their traditional gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, but instead of kneeling before a traditional baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, they're kneeling before a sausage roll with a bite taken out of it.
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It is up to these wise men to set things right, and Paul in particular succeeds in engineering, in the novel's last pages, a dizzying series of machinations to institute an order on the disorder he sees, moving characters around likes pawns on a chess board.
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The story goes that Herod did this because he heard of the birth of a baby who would become the king of all Jews — news that was relayed to him by the Magi (or the three wise men referred to in the carol "We Three Kings").
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But where are the Republican wise men of today, the patriots who cherish our republic and embrace its foundational values, who believe in global interdependence and American benevolence, who repudiate unilateralism and isolationism and yet who remain vigilant, as Washington wisely said, "against the insidious wiles of foreign influence"?
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In some tales, legend has it that La Befana declined an invitation to join the wise men on their journey to Bethlehem to see baby Jesus, and so to this day, she takes flight every Epiphany Eve to search for the holy child on her own, Rashford said.
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The survey asked respondents about their belief in four parts of the biblical Christmas story: that an angel heralded the birth of Jesus; that it was a virgin birth; that wise men were guided to baby Jesus by a star; and that he was placed in a manger.
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On the bus back to the hotel, we passed a gigantic Christmas-decorated downtown park on Baku's principal boulevard; its holiday tree was at least 50 feet tall, surrounded by a modernist nativity scene complete with three wise men bearing gifts from the very area I was visiting.
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Some two million visitors come annually to peruse the gewgaws and trinkets at Bronner's — which boasts the square footage of two football fields and is marketed as the biggest Christmas store in the world — in addition to 20-something surrounding acres of trumpeting angels, Christmas trees and wise men on camels.
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Francis Lam's recipe for Trini chana and aloo is another, particularly when served with naan; I'd end that meal with Cathy Barrow's recipe for pineapple sauce, awesome on a banana split or served over this excellent recipe for poundcake that wise men and women will make today, in advance of the future meal.
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American and European leaders who submit to the notion that the Brexit is inevitable and "can't happen here" should consider the German elections in 85033 and the carnage that followed over the next 13 years, after which wise men founded the united Europe that could be destroyed by small-minded politicians today.
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But before then everyone will place a firm hand on the big wooden spoon and together give the mixture a ceremonial last turn, always east to west in honor of the wise men coming to Bethlehem, to add a final dash of quite another kind of spirituality to the booze-sodden ingredients.
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This drop-off is a good thing, period, because it means that fewer people are undertaking a dangerous journey that falls afoul of United States law, and because it suggests that America might actually be able to establish more control over migration than many of our supposed wise men have long claimed.
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Who Tried It: Jeff Nelson, Music Writer-Reporter Why I Tried It: I've always been a fan of musical theater (I've seen Wicked a casual five times), but my onstage experience was limited to a few plays in elementary and high school and playing some of the Wise Men in the nativity story in church.
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So it's not surprising that as Donald Trump continues to be a wrecking ball destroying conservative orthodoxy, many leading right-wing pundits have tried to find what comfort they can by leafing through the pages of dusty tomes written by the luminaries of old, the wise men (and it's usually men) who laid the foundation for American conservatism.
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Recent examples include a conflict over a decades-long tradition of putting the three wise men on the roof of a Michigan elementary school; cheerleaders in Georgia selling t-shirts saying "In Dodge County, we stand for the flag, kneel for the cross;" and passage of a ballot initiative in Alabama allowing public schools to post the Ten Commandments.
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Robert Lovett, a Republican, was an executive with the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman, then served as a deputy to General George Marshall and as Harry Truman's Secretary of Defense, and helped create NATO and the C.I.A. Lovett was one of the so-called foreign-policy Wise Men, a term that captured how benignly Wall Street-Washington traffic was viewed in that era.
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Sometimes this is costumed in communal decision-making, by a band of local bosses or wise men, but even the most collegial department must have a chairman: a capo di tutti capi respects the other capi , as kings in England were made to respect the lords, but the capo is still the capo and the king is still the king.
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Patrick's candidacy, however, is unique in that it can be understood as the logical endpoint of a media culture which hews to the belief that what Wall Street guys have to say about the world is, by definition, endlessly fascinating—and which, consequently, treats these flagitious aristocrats as wise men of society who must be consulted, courted, and coddled by whoever wishes to be president.
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However it coexists with a third possibility that might be termed the Trump Vindicated scenario (or, for true Trump haters, the LOL Nothing Matters scenario), in which Trump unbound turns out to be no more unpopular than the tamed-by-the-establishment version, his preferred policies prove less destabilizing than all the wise men fear, and we get a 2019 in which Trump flails around but his approval ratings actually go … up?
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As well, he had made a set of rash Obama-like promises, going so far as to say that under a forthcoming Trumpcare plan (he had to be strongly discouraged from using this kind of rebranding — political wise men told him that this was one instance where he might not want to claim ownership with his name), no one would lose their health insurance, and that preexisting conditions would continue to be covered.
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These Wise Men, or Wise Old Men, as some White House staff members took to calling them, included former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, one of the principal architects of the post-World War II international order; Douglas Dillon, a former investment banker, ambassador and secretary of the Treasury; Clark Clifford, Harry Truman's White House counsel; and Henry Cabot Lodge, a former senator from Massachusetts, fresh from a two-year stint as ambassador to South Vietnam.
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