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Jail conditions frequently breed hardened criminals who then go on to the prisons themselves, the second anomaly in a pattern that stands as a monument to irrationality. The typical U.S. felon is sentenced by a judge who may have never seen a prison and has no idea whether x years will suffice. Leaving the courtroom, where his rights were scrupulously respected, the felon has a good chance of being banished to one of 187 escape-proof fortresses, 61 of them built before 1900. Now stripped of most rights, he often arrives in chains and becomes a number. His head sheared...
...ignited special suffocating grenades. Some of the trapped people died at once. Others were machine-gunned as they poured out of the building. Then the Germans set fire to the bodies of 241 women and 202 children; one woman survived. Oradour to this day remains an empty, desolate monument to the massacre...
Parchment Scrolls. Dennis Haslinger, who sold mutual funds for Wallace Investments, Inc., in Cleveland, is now also marketing heraldic devices out of an old house that is a local historical monument. He starts with a direct-mail offer of family crests on a parchment scroll. When he gets a nibble -some status-starved customers eagerly order as many as 50 scrolls-he sends off a catalogue listing family-tree plaques, blazer crests and family histories. "Anyone with a name and $2 is my market," he says. "I've always wanted a business of my own. I couldn...
Defacing a public monument is a crime in France; the idea is worth borrowing and extending to cover such assaults as the Disney scheme to turn California's Mineral King mountain fastness into a tourist development, or the perennial proposal to build a highway through the Grand Canyon. Anyone approaching the national battlefield military park at Gettysburg runs a gauntlet of gaudy billboards, and now Tom Ottenstein, a developer from Silver Spring, Md., is going ahead with plans to build a 300-ft. sightseeing tower on an acre of private land not far from the Gettysburg National Cemetery...
...that towers over an empty area near Warsaw's Old City. The memorial rises on the site of the Jewish ghetto, whose 500.000 inhabitants died either in the 1943 uprising against the Nazis or in prison camps. Solemnly, Brandt placed a huge wreath at the base of the monument. Then, unexpectedly, he dropped to his knees. For an electrifying half-minute, his face sculpted in deep emotion, Brandt knelt on the pavement. It is particularly noteworthy that this symbolic act of national atonement was performed by a man who spent World War II in voluntary exile from Hitler...