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...ESSAY: Artifact or empty suit? Pity the poor Bush flight outfit...
...stunning show of defiance by a jurist, Moore disregarded the urging of all eight of his fellow supreme court justices and Alabama's attorney general to comply with the federal ruling that the religious artifact is inappropriate in a court of law. Instead Moore declared, to the amens of supporters gathered on the building's portico, "I will never, never deny the God upon whom our laws and country depend." The hundreds of protesters had flocked to Moore's monument last week as if to a revival, carrying Bibles, wooden crosses and placards with phrases like KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS. DUMP...
DISCONTINUED. The original BEETLE, lovable roadster and iconic artifact of the '60s; 70 years after Hitler commissioned a people's car--in German, Volkswagen. Competition from more modern vehicles pushed Volkswagen to phase out production at the car's last remaining plant, in Puebla, Mexico. The plant will continue to build the redesigned version introduced in the late 1990s...
...PROBLEM: Harry's archnemesis, Voldemort, is seeking the Sorcerer's Stone, a magical artifact that could make him immortal. Harry has to find it first--and get his homework done...
...home a box of “X-Rated Fortune Cookies,” bearing a squint-eyed, buck-toothed caricature of a “Chinese” waiter, scandalizing his blond-haired, blue-eyed customer with sexual secrets of the Orient. When the gross racism of this artifact was brought to the attention of the BGLTSA board, there was no official response. This is the consequence of an agenda of visibility that fails to think politically—or, more precisely, to think at all: these decontextualized performances of politics serve only to make their performers feel good...