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...twice the height of a tall man and 120 ft. long. The plates leaned inward slightly but emphatically and cut diagonally across the plaza -- a raw, rusty, hulking gesture. Its title was Tilted Arc, its author was Richard Serra, and it was commissioned by the General Services Administration, a branch of the Federal Government, as part of its Art-in-Architecture program. The cost...
...decal symbol, which was designed to look very much like the official state seal. "The thing that's scaring me is that everyone else is scared," said Jeff Shank, an auto mechanic who took a four-hour lunch break to withdraw $14,000 in savings from an Old Court branch...
Though not identified in the Post story, the Lebanese unit involved was widely presumed to be the Deuxieme Bureau, the intelligence branch of the Lebanese Army. The unit is dominated by Maronite Christians with close ties to the 6,000-member Christian militia called the Lebanese Forces. Intelligence sources in Washington speculate that agents of the Deuxieme Bureau, possibly acting on their own, hired outsiders to carry out the car bombing. The Lebanese Army high command flatly denied any official involvement in the attack. As for the CIA , it insisted that it had not trained the agents involved...
...ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding to what the pro-lifers have done," says Lauren Virshup, executive director of the California branch of NARAL, "but what we do will have a life of its own." Argues Virshup of what she hopes will be a reinvigorated pro-choice movement: "When people really understand that we may be on the brink of losing legal abortion, the energy we once had will return...
...desire to stop drinking can join A.A. (There is no absolute definition of an "alcoholic.") People in the organization make themselves available to counsel and sponsor prospective members. Alcoholics Anonymous is open to all ages, faiths (including atheists) and races. Says one member of the New York City branch: "People think A.A. is some monolithic kind of thing. But there is an awful lot of shading. Some groups are very spiritual. Some are very social. For example, over on the East Side of Manhattan, meetings are packed with yuppies who talk like they have just swallowed their Apple computers...