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...realize that, like turn-of-the-century America, it had many not-so admirable aspects. For 2,000 years, the Egyptian Pharaohs and High Priests poured the wealth of their nation and the labor of its inhabitants into the construction and maintenance of the Karnak temple, a shrine dedicated to a god which did not exist...
...have read her famous diary, perhaps visited her Amsterdam shrine or seen the Hollywood film that lionized her. We think we know Anne's story. And we do. We know it from the inside, from Anne's mind, from the blossoming spirit and lively imagination that she poured into her diary. We know which members of her caged circle she loved (her father Otto) and which she hated (the dentist Fritz Pfeffer). We have this remarkable girl's X ray. But Anne was no solitary saint; she was surrounded by helpers and victims. Many of them are still alive, bearing...
...already unfortunate existence of severe snobbishness among many professors just doesn't add up too well. Harvard is blessed with some of the most well-known authorities in so many fields of study. Of course, many of them also recognize that they are blessed and act as if a shrine is the minimum contribution we can make to their life-long worshipping campaign. Students become severely intimidated by these two factors and shy away from professors. Then there is the other half of the student population which does have the guts to approach the professors and get laughed at when...
...precise location where the Ark of the Covenant (the "Lost Ark" of Raiders fame) was stored. That's sure to be controversial; the author contends that it must have been placed in a rectangular indentation on the outcropping beneath the Dome of the Rock, the sacred Muslim shrine on the Temple Mount...
...University of Connecticut is synonymous with big time in women's college basketball. The Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts has become a post-national championship shrine for the Huskies. Senior point guard Jenn Rizotti's number hangs in one glass display case, Rebecca Lobo's in another. The team's 1995-1996 season opener against Louisianna Tech was nationally televised...