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...growing number of Americans, the explorer is instead a symbol of genocide and slavery. And the holiday that once seemed a benign celebration of national pride has increasingly been labelled a day of shame...
...Girl." Edgar and Frances made quite a pair: handsome, smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood (1984), was no Daddy Dearest. It was a sharing of Kismet's gifts...
...humans, though, war-related pollution may have been less benign. In response to complaints by gulf vets of mysterious ailments following their tours, the Department of Veterans Affairs will open environmental medicine referral centers in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington. There is a chance these illnesses are pollution related -- at least one vet had elevated levels of hydrocarbons in his blood -- and in the aftermath of the VA's bitter fight with Vietnam veterans over the health effects of Agent Orange, the agency wants to monitor the situation closely...
...global economy? Most economists believe that the world is drifting toward three major regional trading blocs: North America, Europe and, more slowly, Asia. The question, says Michael Aho, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, is whether these connections will turn out to be "benign or belligerent...
Adaptation lay at the cultural heart of Islamic Spain. It was not always benign; like the Venetians bringing back war plunder to St. Mark's, the Arab rulers symbolized their victory over the Christian infidel by taking bells from church spires and converting them into mosque lamps. The most impressive single work of sculpture in the show, the 11th century Pisa griffin, is so hybrid that without a context, scholars seem unable to decide where it comes from -- or even whether it is from al-Andalus at all. It may equally well be Egyptian, North African or Iranian, though...