Initiation Rites

Rhythms that reflect realities

Rituals, reflections, poetic assaults ...

Maradona Priest and Victim of a Dark Argentine Ritual

The transition programme

Lost in Transition

When my father died many Christmas rituals disappeared from our household.

By tradition, a child's upbringing is fairly structured through rites of initiation that are carried out at various ages, with the basic purpose of preparing a child for adult life.

So Senegal s rituals of respect may not be holding.

In 2003, the Transitional Employment Allowance was introduced.

Here on the Upper West Side, in the middle of a triangle formed by Central Park, Lincoln Center, and the Hudson River, I was once in the habit of beginning each day with an exotic act of devotion, a ritual of humility.

(c) To continue to respect their obligations as regards the implementation of the Transitional Constitution

But prohibiting the ritual slaughter of animals does not stop Jews or Muslims from practicing their religion.

The transnational cyber domain poses new questions about the meaning of national security.

Political experience has never been a prerequisite for NTC membership.

Islam's pervasiveness in every aspect of life makes it more a way of life than a strictly devotional faith.

History In ancient Athens, a person who committed suicide without the approval of the state was denied the honours of a normal burial.

The religious character of Islam varied between Muslim countries since the Koran was open to a wide variety of interpretations.

The NTC may not be able to solve all of Libya s problems.

The NTC deliberates rather than decides.

Indeed, the NTC willingly facilitated the military s demise.

The city was also provisional capital of the National Transitional Council.

In the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament, 12 per cent of the seats are to be reserved for women, and a woman, Fowzia Mohamed Sheikh, is the newly appointed cabinet minister for Gender and Family Affairs.

The time frame for the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms has not yet been set.

And I remember having a very eerie sense that the patient and I had slipped back into a primitive ritual in which I had a role and the patient had a role.

The captured lord was taken back to Quiriguá and on 3 May 738 he was decapitated in a public ritual.

But not all European citizens are practicing Christians. Many are not Christians at all.

The plant is usually green in color, but a purple variant was once grown for use in Inca rituals.

Today, the NTC simply does not have the human resources to consolidate the transition.

The National Transitional Council of Libya has declared International Workers' Day to be a national public holiday starting this year.

The transition programme involved the entire Mission, both at headquarters and in the field offices.

Public Information

Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950 s.

The NTC has suffered regular internal disputes, and its membership and functioning are shrouded in secrecy.

But it is not only a shortage of capable public servants that hamstrings the NTC.

OSLO The dance around the golden Nobel medallion began over a 100 years ago, and is still going strong.

As a result, the NTC simply does not have the time necessary to implement the changes the Libyan people expect.

That does not mean forcing it to follow an unrealistic and potentially dangerous electoral ritual just because it is embedded in UN regulations.

To make it easier on the kids, some parents have resorted to unethical practices to heighten his or her scores, so much so that it has now become part of the exam ritual, says Thuận.

Today, the NTC is hard pressed to find competent, politically untainted bureaucrats to fill its ministries.

The National Transitional Council refuses to make difficult decisions, instead palming them off to a future elected government.

It was occupied by anti Gaddafi forces on 7 August, just a few weeks before they entered Tripoli.

Many NTC members believe that the Council lacks the legitimacy to make tough choices.

Instead of ducking responsibility and carrying on with conventional work in Sweden, he made his way to Hungary, the scene of Hitler's last homicidal orgy against the Jews.

Unseasoned in the art of politics, the NTC frequently lacks the foresight needed to make critical decisions.