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Walter Payton was a warrior. And like all true warriors, he really needs no prizes, no awards, no cheering of the throng, no statues to his deeds. His life and how he lived it will be the monument that endures...
...Come, ye pilgrims, down the spiral staircase to nowhere leading down from the Lowell House dining hall, enter the tastefully unmarked doors, into the bathroom. Mirrors on one wall conscientiously placed above sinks, a row of stalls on the right and urinals tucked behind a wall; this is the monument to the co-ed bathroom, a sense that a community that eats together can share all aspects of that experience...
...produce market, where vegetables every color and shape were being hawked in numerous languages. The dome above city hall, black and studded with gold lines over a classical mass of stone, blinked its brilliance in the sunshine, and the street was lined with flags arranged as a monument to the accomplishments of the United Nations. As I bought a freshly baked scone and handed the merchant the bills, he happily jabbered away on his cellular phone, and I took the moment to think how wonderful and vibrant the city had become...
COUNTRY The Dixie Chicks' sophomore album, Fly (Monument), arrives in stores this week...
...society with no laws, where some protective coating, some layer of civilization, keeping Darwin's jungle remote, has been torn away. The local paper reads as if it had been written by a Jacobean playwright with a taste for black irony. A motorist crashes into the Independence Monument, it says, the seventh such fatality this year. More than 12,000 "ghost soldiers"--nonexistent employees--have been found on the Ministry of Defense payrolls. A Frenchman here to help Cambodia is charged with running a brothel full of underage boys...