Word: grand
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...facilitating our Presidentially-mandated racial catharsis. Unfortunately, the movie's simplistic message, while important, cannot inform the horrendous complexities of a serious contemporary discussion of race. What does Amistad teach its audience? Slavery was bad, a terrible crime. Freedom is much better. How does this message translate into grand societal questions? For the editors of Newsweek, the big questions were: Should the U.S. government apologize for slavery? Should we build a memorial to slavery? And how should we approach the salve ownership of the founding fathers...
...Westerners know this kind of faith--idiosyncratic individual devotion at its most physical. There are no glittering ceremonies or grand processions, no public professions, no dramatic visions, only 10,000 acts of private veneration, prayer, supplication. What the stranger sees is the collective reverence of the like-minded in direct contact with the spiritual, and the awesome testament of comfort received, etched on their faces...
...gone, but this turn-of-the-century greenhouse in the Bronx is alive and glinting. To restore this sizable jewel box, which showcases an indoor spectacle of plant life, required 17,000 new panes of glass. The firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, which also restored Ellis Island and Grand Central Terminal, gives back to America one more piece of its indispensable but fragile past...
...grand jury further charges that on or about April 19, 1995, at Oklahoma City, McVeigh and Nichols did cause to be damaged and destroyed by means of a truck bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, causing death and injury. Counts 4-11: First Degree Murder The grand jury further charges on or about April 19, 1995, at Oklahoma City, McVeigh and Nichols did, with premeditation and malice aforethought, cause the killing of the following persons engaged in the performance of official duties as law enforcement officers: Mickey Bryant Maroney, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Donald R. Leonard, special agent...
...grand jury further charges on or about April 19, 1995, at Oklahoma City, McVeigh and Nichols did cause to be used a weapon of mass destruction, namely a truck bomb, against persons within the United States, resulting in death and personal injury...