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These drawings show the Iraqi leader's new -- and blisteringly opulent -- Al- Sijoud Palace, a moat-surrounded monument that was under construction (estimated cost: $1 billion) in Baghdad when Saddam invaded Kuwait. Some of the foreign workers employed on the project have since been allowed to leave Iraq...
Waterloo was the quiet Flemish town where Napolean was defeated in 1815. A monument on a hill commemorates the men who died in that battle. But those who trek up the steps to the top no longer see the rustic cow pastures where most of the men died. They see the golden arches of McDonalds, the Pizza Hut, the American schools and the Chevy station wagons with Virginia plates in the supermarket parking lots...
...military buildup in peacetime history and -- most fraudulent of all -- a balanced budget. Bush's OMB director, Richard Darman, who played a crucial role in negotiating the budget compromise that was at the center of last week's maelstrom, was himself guilty of preparing a budget that was a monument to Reaganite wishful thinking. Bush's nationally televised paean to the homely virtues of a balanced checkbook might have carried a lot more weight in both the country and in Congress had he not won office two years ago with a promise to reduce the deficit without raising taxes...
HISTORY: A monument to the great gateway...
Millions of aspiring Americans were shunted through Ellis Island. Now its main building has been restored as a monument to the pain and glory of the immigrant experience...