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...begrudges the $1 million a year in federal funds for the upkeep of the Lincoln Memorial, with its huge, Zeus-like figure of the dead President by Daniel Chester French? Yet from there to Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial--a focus of intense collective feeling and reverence today, but bitterly denounced by many a flag-wagging conservative as "a black gash of shame"-- there has scarcely been a significant American public sculpture commemorating things Americans care about that hasn't excited fierce opposition, usually in the name of patriotism and values...
...Grace & Co. is hard to beat. For one thing, it has intimations of greed. J. Peter Grace, the ailing 81-year-old chairman, announced his resignation amid disclosures about hundreds of thousands of dollars in company money that had been paid for private security guards, nursing care and the upkeep of a $2 million Manhattan apartment. And of course it has a whiff of treachery. Behind the internal inquiry that led to the patriarch's undoing was chief executive officer J.P. Bolduc, 55, the very person Grace had groomed to succeed him. And naturally there's a hint of deceit...
...some students expressed concern that use of the room for recreation will make it hard for students to get their work done. "I'm a little worried about the security and the upkeep," Arbelaez said...
...legislator, who remained nameless in yesterday's Times article, is advocating "three strikes and you're dead." Now that guy's tough. Smart too, since he realizes that if you're going to keep someone in jail for life without parole, you might as well save the taxpayers the upkeep and maintenance of the prisons. How thoughtful...
Currently, the term bill fee is $20 and the council's annual budget is in the neighborhood of $120,000. A portion of this goes to operational costs (office supplies, space rental, phone and fax lines, maintenance and upkeep of equipment, etc.);$80,000 goes to student grants and the remaining amount--about $30,000--goes to fund council activities...