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A Meditation

I ’m at Washington airport on a book tour. My escort, an agreeable man whom I have encountered on several previous occasions, says farewell and then asks, ‘Are you still......

That Old Bethlehem Story

Christopher Howse T HE N ATIVITY : H ISTORY AND L EGEND by Geza Vermes Penguin, £7.99, pp. 177, ISBN 0141024462 ✆ £6.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I f you tell people there......