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...object to it are just as wrong as the other people who (for very different reasons) campaigned against the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, calling it a depressive exercise, an insult to the American military and a "black gash of shame." The Vietnam wall transcended the criticisms and became an American shrine...
Harvard and BU played another Beanpot game yesterday-but this time, the baseball teams were playing and the site was Boston's other sports shrine, Fenway Park...
...reports of visions are on the rise in the U.S. The accounts range from the woman who saw the face of Jesus in a forkful of spaghetti on a billboard in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to the pilgrim who says he was healed during a visit to Medjugorje, built a shrine in his backyard in suburban New Jersey, and now plays host to thousands of visitors hoping to encounter the Virgin on the first Sunday of each month...
After a week of violence, the thousands of kar sevaks, or Hindu holy workers, who destroyed the Muslim shrine in the belief that it covered the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama, have been driven off. Army and police units have restored a semblance of order after Muslim-Hindu rioting left more than 1,100 dead and 4,000 injured. The government has banned three Hindu and two Muslim organizations and arrested the leaders of the major opposition party...
...stayed behind when India was partitioned in 1947. But militancy on one side breeds it on the other. In the wake of the Babri mosque's destruction, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, a Muslim religious leader, vowed to lead a mass march of his own to the site to rebuild the shrine. Said he: "The country is heading toward civil...