Word: monumental
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...Will the Soviet Union build a monument to those who died in Afghanistan, like the monument for the Viet Nam War dead in Washington...
...tiled column is a photograph of Zhao -- with Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument down. No way. I am keeping the faith. Eventually, Zhao will be vindicated. There's no turning back over the long run. The emperors in Beijing won't change the label. They'll still call China Communist. They'll have to do that to keep themselves in power...
...Nuremberg, the USSR added the massacre to the list of charges against Hermann Goering, but quietly dropped the accusations for lack of evidence. And during the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, Soviet forces leveled a monument to the slain officers...
Indeed, the likely conclusion to the Gulf station saga will be an unsightly edifice on Mass. Ave., a monument to Harvard's fixation on profitable niceties at the expense of academics...
...movies, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin. You think of these guys sitting in poky little movie houses in Central Europe in the 1920s watching these flickering images. As far as they were concerned, everything in America was all in the same place. You rode down Fifth Avenue straight into Monument Valley...