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...Harleston Parker Medal, established in1921, is awarded each year to "the most beautifulpiece of architecture, building, monument ofstructure within the City or Metropolitan ParksDistrict limits," according...
Vladimir Zhirinovskywas only in India for three days, but he won't soon be forgotten. The Russian nationalist ended his visit today by calling the magnificent 17th century Taj Mahal a "monument that reminds husbands to indulge in corruption so that they can build their Taj Mahal for their wives." At aphoto-opat the mausoleum yesterday, Zhirinovsky reclined in a marble niche, Roman style, and invited photographers to click away. He capped off the tour this morning by suggesting that India annex Pakistan and Bangladesh, then presenting a bottle of Russian vodka to a top Indian minister...
...marble and bronze in momentous proportions, a project that has been frustrated ever since F.D.R.'s death on April 12, 1945. In 1969 L.B.J. designated 27 acres along Cherry Tree Walk in the Tidal Basin-between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials-as a park for a Roosevelt monument. One earlier design had been ridiculed as "instant Stonehenge" and dumped in 1960. Two other attempts also faltered...
...lost an arm in the war), and including grandson David Roosevelt, is hunkering down. But the tide seems to be against their view: that F.D.R.'s deception of the 1930s-politically incorrect now but necessary, he believed, for the politics of the time-should be perpetuated in a monument intended for the ages. "We all need to understand what it was this man conquered,'' says Goodwin. "If Franklin Roosevelt were to come back, I think he would want his disability to be shown in some way." He would be amused by the debate. After all, he once said, "There...
...image of the U.S. has been of an imperialist country,'' says history teacher Samuel Vargas as he guides his sixth graders around the monument. Watching them, Luis Garcia, a castle guard, offers a different view. Unbuttoning his gray uniform, he reveals a T shirt emblazoned NEW YORK. In fact, since 1988 Chicago has become Garcia's second home. After 25 years guarding the Boy Heroes, he earns only $40 a week. For the past seven years, he has taken a May-to-October leave of absence, hopped a plane to visit his sister, then overstayed his tourist visa to work...