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...ashes of the estimated 1.5 million of Hitler's victims who died there--1.1 million Jews, 75,000 Poles and thousands of others including Gypsies, homosexuals and communists, targeted for annihilation by Hitler's minions. The camp is at once the world's largest cemetery and most gruesome industrial artifact. ``It was an experiment in how to kill the most people in the smallest area, in the least time, for the cheapest price,'' said Kurt Goldstein, a Berlin member of the International Auschwitz Committee. ``It was a killing machine. Persecutions are part of history. But the factory-like systematic extermination...
...baseball season may be jeopardized by thecontinuing standoff between owners and players. The owners plan on announcing next Monday at their meeting in Chicago that they are going to impose a salary cap on players, The Washington Post reported. "Last year's system is a historical artifact and we cannot operate under it any more," Atlanta Braves president Stan Kasten said Monday night. "Clubs have to do something by (December) 7th because from that point forward we're into next season with last year's economic system." With the players not planning to offer an alternative to the taxation plan...
Along with Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson, Madonna was one of the pop-music giants of the 1980s, and she has risked becoming an artifact of that era, like Dynasty and jackets with zippers all over them. On Bedtime Stories, though, she successfully pulls herself out of the time warp by surrounding herself with au courant '90s performers such as Babyface (who co-wrote two tracks on Bedtime Stories and also sings on them), critical darling Me'Shell NdegeOcello (who plays bass and raps) and Icelandic alternative diva Bjork (who co-wrote a tune). One of the songs...
...stuff has been surefire ever since parents realized they could fend off a child's tears by handing over the artifact of a cartoon rodent. "Walt Disney started it all," notes Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Co. "He was the first man to create consumer products out of filmed entertainment." And so for decades Mickey Mouse and other Disney icons shuttled between love and neglect: they were purchased by doting parents, then cradled in children's arms, then placed on bedroom toy shelves, then exiled to attics, then discarded in sidewalk rummage sales, then discovered...
When talk-show host Don Wade played the song last week, congratulatory calls flooded the station. Self-congratulatory calls, really. The parody, a compilation of lyrics sent in by listeners from 38 states, is just the latest artifact in a "We loathe Bill and Hill" movement that spews out everything from bumper stickers to wait-till-'96 support groups. Whitewater has thrown plenty of fuel onto this low-burning but widespread fire. The White House's admission that Hillary made a profit of nearly $100,000 on a $1,000 investment only further stimulates the Clintonophobes' bile. Indeed, in Wade...