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...other day I was inside the Coop, minding my own business while trying on a pair of official Harvard-Yale Game underwear emblazoned with the emblem of each school on the front and back panels...
...counterpoise to these exquisitely delicate objects is the 1,000-year-old, 1,200-lb. limestone Chacmool, the ceremonial figure that is the very emblem of Maya civilization in its later phases. Found at the most celebrated of all Maya sites, Chichen Itza in Yucatan, the semireclining statue is a splendid example of the Chacmools found guarding the entrances of temples. Typically, the male figure leans back on his elbows, pulls up his knees and turns a forbidding gaze on intruders at the sacred gates. A flat plate poised on his belly is believed to have been a receptacle...
...core of Alfonsin's program is a new national currency. The 104-year-old Argentine peso is being replaced by the austral, which at the moment is worth 1,000 old pesos or $1.25. Since the currency bears the same name as one domestic airline, whose emblem is a penguin, the austral was immediately nicknamed the "pinguino," the Spanish word for penguin. To maintain the value of the austral, the government vowed that it will no longer simply print money to cover expenses. In addition, it proclaimed a freeze on all wages and on the prices of 31 food items...
...none of these political killers seems so utterly diabolical as Josef Mengele. The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 3 million Jews and other victims were slaughtered, was probably the most concentrated expression of human evil in all of history, and Mengele was the emblem and embodiment of Auschwitz...
...also the perverted emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music...