Word: monumentous
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...July doubleheaders (bleacher seats--rather benches--were 75 cents per ticket then). For tens of millions of New Englanders, historic Fenway Park is their personal field of dreams. John Harrington, corporate executive of the current Red Sox management, wants to tear down major league baseball's historic monument to family values...
...ignoring the will of the people of the state." And while Wednesday's legislation represents more of a compromise than an unqualified victory for the flag's foes - the bill ensures the flag's presence on Capitol grounds and would forbid the removal of, or changes to, any Confederate monument across the state - it does accomplish one major feat: At last, state legislators have a chance to close the door on this lengthy and painful debate and finally focus on the business of governing...
More than 15 planned to "sleep-in" on Beinecke Plaza last night to continue the protest and protect the three-sided monument...
They also erected a three-sided plyboard monument with one side for workers, one side for students and one side for the administration. The student and worker's side contained quotes, pictures and signed messages, but the administrative side contained a letter of support addressed to the WRC that activists are urging the administration to sign...
...meeting held after the rally yesterday Yale administrators rejected demonstrators' request to keep the monument as a permanent structure, demanding that it be taken down each night and rebuilt the next morning and that it be permanently removed at the end of the week...