Word: erection
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...course, there are powerful reasons not to give the “international community”—the same folks who put Sudan on the Human Rights Commission and Syria on the Security Council—a veto on our actions. Any international order we erect must satisfy our own national interests more often than it frustrates them; any other system would not be worth joining and would never retain long-term support...
STEVEN SPIELBERG, film director Every Sept. 11, at 8:45 a.m, the nation should pause for as many seconds as the number of souls who lost their lives--perhaps 5,000 seconds of silence, contemplation and prayer. We should erect memorials from some of the fragmented remains of masonry and steel. Schools should declare it World Tolerance Education...
...relative slimness—Rushdie says that he has been “trying to write a short novel for years,” and is proud to have finally succeeded), though there are still several juicy cameos: Schlink, the Jewish U-boat plumber (“Erect, wiry, with Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth”), or Beloved Ali the taxi driver (“Hey! American man! You are a godless homosexual rapist of your mother’s pet goat”). Some of these seem to go astray: Perry Pincus, seducer...
...vanishes. Nearby townspeople report seeing police remove it along with the brick base in the night. The next day Inspector General Ashok Kumar Bhan confirms his men's involvement, claiming the mourners were trespassing on state-owned land under Section 447 of the Kashmir penal code. "Obviously they cannot erect such a thing on government land," he says. The summit is over and forgotten; the mourning in Kashmir?whatever sort is allowed?continues...
World's fairs, those jamborees of national output--what ever happened to them? The Belgian waffles, the Futurama architecture, it all used to seem so important. Yet the U.S. didn't even bother to erect a pavilion for the one last year in Hanover, Germany. And, really, why should it have? Who needs to stand in line outside a geodesic dome to find out what America produces? Who needs a product-display center to discover Lucinda Williams? Or a monorail to take you to Philip Roth or Tom Ford? Anywhere in the world you find a movie screen...