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This thin, user-friendly book has developed into an unwelcome monument to the summer of 1993. It sits at my endtable sometimes; most days, it's buried in the clothesheap on the floor. The bookmark is stuck in page 187, and it's been that way for months...
...haul: 588 guns, some turned in by juveniles. "It amazed me," says C.R. Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. In May MAD DADS staged another buyback after sending 100,000 flyers to nine school districts. The take: 1,124 guns, which will be welded into a monument by a local artist. Among them was Doug's 12-gauge shotgun. "I figured it was a safe way to get rid of it," Doug says. "I did a lot of crazy things with that gun, and I didn't want to get caught with it." He plans on getting...
Other reminders have ended up on history's dustheap. In New Orleans, for example, Jefferson Davis Elementary has become Ernest N. Morial Elementary, named after the city's first black mayor. Two weeks ago, the New Orleans City Council voted to dismantle the Liberty Monument, a granite obelisk to white supremacy. The Ole Miss faculty in Oxford, Mississippi, passed a resolution seeking to end the playing of Dixie at school events. In Memphis, Tennessee, black activists may soon try to remove from a city park the bronze statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Imperial Wizard...
...Shoppers don't just shop at Stew's, they arrive (sometimes by tour bus) and worship the experience of wheeling oversize carts down a 20-ft.-wide aisle that meanders through the 10- acre complex like a yellow-brick road. As a result, Leonard has been hailed as a monument to family enterprise and brilliant marketing by everyone from chicken toughie Frank Perdue to Ronald Reagan to Tom Peters, author of A Passion for Excellence. Companies such as Wal-Mart and Wendy's have sent executives on pilgrimages to study Stew's methods...
Counter said he has designed several other monuments, including one to Arctic explore Matthew Hanson. He said that although no other administrators or faculty members at Harvard had been involved in the design, several students active in the Harvard Foundation had assisted in creating the plans for the monument...