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Plans for a more permanent memorial are beginning to take shape, and as in New York City, passions are running high. Seven landowners share the 400-acre site, which was long ago strip-mined for coal. In March a bill was introduced in Congress to designate it a national memorial, which would bring a much needed infusion of funds to the community. A formal planning committee will be named in the next few months. The announcement can't come soon enough for the locals, who find the whole process maddeningly bureaucratic. Meanwhile, a garishness is sweeping into town. Flight...
...Cambridge School Committee voted unanimously last night to strip the name of famous 19th century Harvard professor Louis Agassiz—a Darwin-refuter and, many residents charged, a “bigot”—from the local Agassiz elementary school...
...years who works in the Las Vegas area, says her job used to be more about performing. "Now," she says, with clubs and police showing greater tolerance of physical contact, "it's about sex. It's about getting men off." Whereas the stage was once the focal point of strip clubs, the job in most venues now consists almost entirely of giving lap dances...
That kind of activity may explain some of New Burlesque's appeal. As strip clubs sell more touch than display, the pleasures of striptease seem nostalgic, almost innocent...
...call Kashmir the subcontinent's West Bank or Gaza Strip would be a stretch. The Kashmir Valley, the heart and soul of the territory, is one of the earth's lovelier places. Many Kashmiris are poor, but no one lives in 50-year-old refugee settlements. Unlike the Palestinians, they have a homeland...