The late nineteenth century was an inventive time for tradition-making.

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Black Friday is a time-honored tradition for retailers, a sport for many shoppers, and entertaining for spectators.

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On October 1st one tradition was broken when 11 judges emerged for the first time from the made-over Middlesex Guildhall to attend the event.

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For the first time, lay people can easily separate religious commands from tradition by looking at holy texts and scholarship rather than relying on their local preachers.

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In particular, the performance of some cultural expressions in a different space or time than that which corresponds to the tradition can lose all its significance for the local communities concerned.

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Dole is figuring that the folks who were booing were the ones who would vote for Pat Buchanan or Dan Quayle anyway, and so she's bucking the time-honored tradition of running to the right in the primaries and lurching back to the center in the general election.

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