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...also got to work on our decorating," Silverman adds, looking around the common room, which is an elaborate shrine to Chicago Bulls' star Michael Jordan, whose photograph stands behind the basketball hoop. "When you dunk the ball," Silverman says, pushing the basketball through the net once more, "you can see Jordan's face through the backboard...
...finds by Israelis, Jordan authorized creation of a select group of antiquities experts, all Christians, with exclusive rights to study and publish the rest of the manuscripts. The favored scholars assigned the various texts among themselves. As for the scrolls, some eventually went on display at West Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book, but most ended up in the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem. When Israel gained jurisdiction over the museum in the 1967 Six-Day War, it left the existing team in place. Recently the members have consigned some scrolls to graduate assistants, cutting out better-known experts...
...Overardent admirers talk incessantly about their idols. They watch their films again and again or play their recordings over and over. They neglect responsibilities at home, school or work. Sometimes they devote an entire room to a celebrity, filling it with photographs and clippings, making it a sort of shrine. "Families should take this seriously," warns Dietz, "but they usually don't." The next step in the compulsion often involves travel, according to De Becker, first in a random pattern, then with a purpose: to follow the object of their desires...
Shoes, belt, a gray felt hat and a dark suit, still neatly pressed after 25 years, all rest in the Dallas office of lawyer Jules Mayer, a kind of macabre shrine to his former client Jack Ruby. Missing from this memento mori: the .38-cal. Colt Cobra that killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This bizarre souvenir of the assassination may be worth as much as $250,000 at auction. At least that's what Mayer claims as he squabbles with Ruby's two brothers and two sisters over who has rights...
...turned to Babbit in amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before the final triumph, the elder Babbit went off to do political battle...