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...primitive nations. With revenues from oil, first discovered in 1954, the Sultan superimposed the infrastructure of a modern state on Oman's tribal society. In 1985, celebrating 15 years on the throne, Qaboos hosted a meeting of Arab rulers at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a marble-and-tile monument to Arabian opulence on a mountain-ringed bay near Muscat. It was a sort of coming-out party, signaling the end of Oman's virtual isolation from the outside world...
Each was "forced" to take the monument of the Confederacy down for different reasons, including selective enforcement of a Harvard housing rule, threats and basic lack of tolerance and understanding. The purpose of this letter is to educate those who are looking for something sinister in our affection for the flag of our forefathers...
...have the best, and the most meaningful, nightmares about my grandfather's encroachment of their territory. These critics spend their entire careers picking apart literature to find hidden symbols of sexual repression. The snake in the Garden of Eden? A phallic symbol. Moby Dick? A phallic symbol. The Washington Monument? A phallic symbol...
Although most of the rifle-toting troops in Tiananmen Square have been gone for months, guards armed with bayonets remain in place at the Monument to the People's Heroes. Overall, there have been no reductions in the security forces controlling the capital. Many of the restrictions on demonstrations and strikes in Beijing have been codified in municipal regulations every bit as tough as the martial-law decree, and the independent student associations that mobilized demonstrators last spring remain outlawed. In any case, the dissident vanguard has been shattered as dozens of student leaders and their intellectual mentors have fled...
Gorbachev waded into a crowd of several hundred people in Vilnius after the visit to the Lenin monument, and he talked for nearly an hour...