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...worn in 1972 by British art lovers in a campaign against entrance fees at national museums and art galleries. They finally won the fight in 2001. One of the liberated institutions, the British Museum, is displaying until Jan. 16 a selection of 240 badges from its roughly 12,000-item international collection. Coins and medals curator Philip Attwood says the exhibition, "Status Symbols: Identity and Belief on Modern Badges," provides "a quirky look at moments in world political history." It explores attitudes about individual and group identity, examines the origin and use of symbols, and shows that badges...
...worn in 1972 by British art lovers in a campaign against entrance fees at national museums and art galleries. They finally won the fight in 2001. One of the liberated institutions, the British Museum, is displaying until Jan. 16 a selection of 240 badges from its roughly 12,000-item international collection. Coins and medals curator Philip Attwood says the exhibition, "Status Symbols: Identity and Belief on Modern Badges," provides "a quirky look at moments in world political history." It explores attitudes about individual and group identity, examines the origin and use of symbols, and shows that badges...
...most important item he came upon as he built his collection was his single-tale snake whip, the implement he says epitomizes BDSM. “The whip represents all the extremes of BDSM,” he says today, taking the snake whip from out of his closet and lightly flicking it toward the center of the room...
...citizens of the world can participate, possibly by voting on the Internet. It would give millions of people the chance to officially express their views on an election that carries global import and will affect millions of lives. Sarah Coene Hinsbeck, Germany Let the Foxes Live Re your item about pro-hunting demonstrators objecting to the U.K. ban on fox hunting with dogs [Sept. 27]: Nature's law is to kill other animals only if a creature cannot find food in any other way. But very few hunters today kill wildlife to keep their children from starvation. Most hunters kill...
...YOUR ITEM ABOUT HOW SYRIA AND THE U.S. are holding talks to try to keep insurgents from crossing Syria's border into Iraq was both informative and amusing [Sept. 27]. President Bush famously said, "You are either with us or against us" in the war on terrorism, but by cooperating with Syria, a well-known harborer of terrorists and a suspected developer of weapons of mass destruction, Bush seems to have changed his mind. Sounds like a flip-flop...