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The line snaked halfway around the block last weekend at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Hundreds of people leaned against utility poles and sat on stoops, waiting 45 minutes to reach the museum door.
On August 1, 1944, the Polish Underground resistance started fighting the Nazis on the streets of Warsaw. The city erupted in a valiant rebellion. But the rocks and slings of these modern-day Davids were no match for the armor of the German Goliath. The Soviet Red Army, parked only...
Homemade decorations of dried cranberries, peppers and gourds were tied to the poles and strung in chains around the crossbars supporting the roof.
Suspecting more dirty tactics, we asked Michelle Hewitt from the Dean of Students' office about those posters. "They shouldn't be there," she said, and she faxed us the postering policy from the Handbook for Student Organizations. It reads, "Do NOT place posters on entry posts, gates, poles, trees, sidewalks...
Caught between the two sides in the battles last week were U.N. peacekeepers. On Friday a Danish soldier was killed and two Poles were wounded when Croatian units began shelling several U.N. observation posts. By the end of the week two more peacekeepers, both Czech, had been killed, and more...