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...claiming abridgement of their Constitutional rights. By cloaking themselves in the Constitution, AALARM is setting up a standard they would reject in many other scenarios. If AALARM members E. Adam Webb '93 and Kenneth D. DeGiorgio '93 operated a private postering business, would they feel Constitutionally bound to plaster the campus with anything and everything that came in the door? Would they have hung up the photographs depicting gay and lesbian sex that they were so indignant about last month...
...counter-campaign. In the interest of my own personal sanity and the conservation of thumbtacks, I decided start my own group, ENOUGH. The philosophy is simple. Date and share an abode with whomever you please, and shut up about it. We really don't care. And don't plaster my entryway with boring text that says nothing. I feel compelled to read it. I read all the stuff from the Publisher's Clearing House...
...showed his face last week as thousands of Rama devotees marched toward a 462-year-old Muslim mosque in Ayodhya, a site holy to both Hindus and Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Shouting "Break the mosque! Break the mosque!" about 100 stone-throwing crusaders pulled plaster from the walls and planted saffron-colored flags atop the shrine before they were driven off by police and paramilitary troops armed with tear gas, riot sticks and guns. At least six militants died; next day an additional 16 were killed as police used bullets and bamboo staves to hold back...
...mourn the loss of a plaster saint. That saint, the venerated one with the windblown corona, was a dried husk. The man who had the great thoughts and spun the strange theories that inspired that veneration was young, full of vigor and turbulence and passion. He was hardly alone; all his organs worked as well as his brain. His household was squirming with babies when he began his greatest work, on general relativity. Einstein's physics flourished not in the absence of life but in its fullness. His scientific life blossomed at the same time as the rest...
Bonnettstown: A House in Ireland by Andrew Bush (Abrams; $37.50). Built near Kilkenny in 1737, this limestone manor house is revealed in 45 magnificent color photographs. The rooms display the cluttered charm that only two centuries of daily use can bring. Bush revels in textures: flaking plaster, rubbed wood, well-worn carpets. This book celebrates old but ageless beauty...