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...Union Square, peace signs and messages for tolerance proliferated around the makeshift cement monument, erected next to the towering statue of George Washington astride a war mount; reprinted articles from renowned academics Howard Zinn and Edward Said hung next to squadrons of miniature flags...
...political and economic power, it reminds us of the thousands of lives lost and the millions of tons of rubble which now sit in their place. Until some sort of memorial can be erected at the site of the towers, their image should serve as a monument to the dead and the relatively peaceful world America thought it had achieved...
...lucky enough to get a room with a view, you'll see it right away. A shimmering monument of white, it floats above the shabby city of Agra. From afar, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful as the poets promise--a glowing tribute to obsessive adoration and a symbol of India around the world. But up close, the picture begins to crumble. Acid rain and condensation from the former Mughal capital's coke-fueled factories and, environmentalists say, a nearby oil refinery are eating away the marble and turning what remains the color of unloved teeth. The famous canals...
...lucky enough to get a room with a view, you'll see it right away. A shimmering monument of white, it floats above the shabby city of Agra. From afar, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful as the poets promise?a glowing tribute to obsessive adoration and a symbol of India around the world. But up close the picture begins to crumble. Acid rain and condensation from the former Mughal capital's coke-fueled factories and, environmentalists say, a nearby oil refinery are eating away the marble and turning what remains the color of unloved teeth. The famous canals...
...pretending to prop up Pisa's leaning tower b) the Washington Monument never lets her do this in public c) she thought, "To my daughter Jenna, this tower isn't leaning...