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...spacious, five-deck ship, built to carry as many as 85 passengers. A&K nonetheless kept a full staff of 60 on board, and the service and food were outstanding. The Sun Boat transported us peacefully upriver to docks from which we could travel easily to ancient monuments, including the majestic columns and obelisks of Karnak and the richly painted tombs of kings and queens burrowed into the desert. While waiting for the next monument to show up, we stretched out on the Sun Boat's deck, admiring the groves of date palms passing by, and exchanged salutes with farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Jitters? Relax in Egypt | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

Although the glowing idea of a Giant Lava Lamp may not fly in Cambridge, perhaps a monument to Harvard/Cambridge friendship and cooperation is in order: a 60-foot giant neon handshake sculpture, in the place where Harvard’s 13th house would have been. And while we’re all waiting for hell to freeze over, if re-routing the Charles is a good idea...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Cambridge Needs a Giant Lava Lamp | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...immigrant’s vision of the endless possibility that marks our most American of American cities as it is an American vision of that city’s determined continuity. In another place Libeskind’s design would be truly a Yad Vashem, a memorial and a monument. But it is toweringly inappropriate in its current location...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, | Title: Monumental Error | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...beautiful vision, his floating 1776-foot spire, his hanging gardens. Less ornament, less grace, less art. For people were not buried there, they were slaughtered. At the location of such a tragedy, no memorial for the victims can speak beyond the site’s capacity for speech, no monument to the heroes can be more than distraction...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, | Title: Monumental Error | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...said the snow penis follows a long line of public phallic symbols, including the Washington Monument and missiles...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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