Month: June 2001
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World War II Memorial Protesters Sue to Halt Construction at Contested Site (Stars and Stripes)
By Dave Eberhart, Stars and Stripes The National Coalition to Save Our Mall (NCSM), World War II Veterans to Save the Mall, the D.C. Preservation League and others filed suit […]
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A Touch of Albert Speer (Der Speigel)
By Carlos Widman, Der Speigel Washington Gets A Huge WWII Monument -But the Memorial in Gold, Bronze and Granite Revisits The Aesthetic of the Defeated Enemy “Between the massive temple in […]
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Bad idea, bad spot for WWII Memorial (Chicago Sun-Times)
By Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times I am looking at an artist’s rendering for the World War II Memorial, which Congress and President Bush have decided with unseemly haste should deface the […]
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A memorial shouldn’t distract from the ideas defended (Editorial by The Akron Beacon-Journal)
Moviegoers brushed aside the unflattering reviews. All told, they parted with $75 million over the weekend to see Pearl Harbor, the summer blockbuster about the surprise Japanese attack on the […]
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