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Last week the selfsame statue had velvet ropes placed around it as protection from a throng of photographers. Flashbulbs popped, TV lights poured out their bluish-white certification of celebrity. If marble could think, this particular chunk of it must have wondered what on earth was going...
...Hilton Head, South Carolina, at a retreat known as Renaissance Weekend. This year was different. "These are the people I've been in the trenches with for 30 years," Viguerie noted, "and for most of those years, it's been the pits." But not anymore. Viguerie surveyed the gathering throng: "It's like old home week." Welcome to the conservative answer to the Renaissance: Dark Ages Weekend...
...hold half a million men--with 1,600 of them chartered in New York City alone. D.C. authorities ordered additional security for the Mall in front of the Capitol, where the speeches would take place, and scrambled to find enough water, parking spaces and portable toilets to accommodate the throng. People around the country were arguing about whether to attend the march, and organizers from Farrakhan's Nation of Islam were tight-lipped about who would be speaking and what would be said. The atmosphere was tense, hopeful and confused--just the way Farrakhan likes...
...member of the historical commission said that crowds usually throng outside this house during Webster's long and highly-publicized trial...
Thus men will sing "thy sons to thy jubilee throng" while women will sing "thy daughters in jubilee throng." The divergence of three syllables lasts not more than two seconds, with no divergence in beat or rhythm, blending in a perfect marriage...