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...campaign against entrance fees at national museums and art galleries. They finally won the fight in 2001. One of the liberated institutions, the British Museum, is displaying until Jan. 16 a selection of 240 badges from its roughly 12,000-item international collection. Coins and medals curator Philip Attwood says the exhibition, "Status Symbols: Identity and Belief on Modern Badges," provides "a quirky look at moments in world political history." It explores attitudes about individual and group identity, examines the origin and use of symbols, and shows that badges can (if insults or fists aren't flying too furiously) help...
...campaign against entrance fees at national museums and art galleries. They finally won the fight in 2001. One of the liberated institutions, the British Museum, is displaying until Jan. 16 a selection of 240 badges from its roughly 12,000-item international collection. Coins and medals curator Philip Attwood says the exhibition, "Status Symbols: Identity and Belief on Modern Badges," provides "a quirky look at moments in world political history." It explores attitudes about individual and group identity, examines the origin and use of symbols, and shows that badges can (if insults or fists aren't flying too furiously) help...
...close contacts to the I.R.A. argue that he was deliberately kept in the dark about the bombings so that he could claim ignorance and remain the acceptable face of Irish republicanism. For the moment, Adams is still an important--and perhaps indispensable--part of the peace process. Says Alex Attwood, a Belfast city councilor representing a ward in Roman Catholic West Belfast: "Adams and his first- line managers are the best and the brightest. People may not like them, but they need to be sustained if we are going to secure peace...
...Attwood said that the Porum also invited Reagan to speak, but was not optimistic in light of the negative reception accord Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinherger '38 on his visit three weeks...
Forcibly ejecting rowdy members of the audience is not a viable alternative, Attwood said. "It's difficult to pull someone out kicking