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...question as to which side he wanted to win. This was not a mere expression of pique. When the existential enemy was Nazism or communism, the world rallied to the American protector. But Arab-Islamic radicalism is different. Its hatreds are wide, but its strategic focus is America. Its monument is ground zero. Ground zero is not in Paris...
...among the artists to protest the construction of "a gigantic black factory chimney" now known as the Eiffel Tower. After losing that battle, Maupassant favored the restaurant at the base - it was the only place where the tower didn't mar his view. Parisians eventually grew to love that monument, but they've never accepted many of the tall buildings that went up in the 1970s. Even after 30 years, the tower of Maine-Montparnasse, a 209-m monstrosity jutting out of a decrepit esplanade atop the Montparnasse train station on the Left Bank, has few friends...
...firing of ALAbama state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for his refusal to remove the Ten Commandments statue from his courthouse [Nov. 24]: I would defend Moore's right to read the Bible on the courthouse steps, but citizens do not have the right to put religious monuments of their choice on public property. If the judge truly believed in the law, including the Ten Commandments, he would have explored legal channels for setting up the monument before taking things into his own hands. MARIE EVANS Clayton...
...Showcasing their soon-to-be released sophomore LP, They Were Wrong So We Drowned, the Liars descended deeper into experimental rock without fully leaving behind the Gang of Four aesthetic that won them such cred with their debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Put a Monument...
...same all over again. I said back then, and I'll say it again now: God is the basis of our law and our government." ROY MOORE, Alabama's chief justice, standing by a decision to defy a federal court order to remove a granite monument of the Ten Commandments at the state supreme court. A state ethics judicial panel nevertheless removed him from the bench...