Museums and Memorials

Chronicles of Death 6 Jul 2008, 0317 hrs IST, Manjima Bhattacharjya (The Times of India)

6 Jul 2008

The day we landed in Baghdad, the university professor who doubled as a taxi driver to make ends meet told us we were lucky. An ice-cream parlour—the first to do so—had re-opened after nine years.

Nation’s capital: An ever-changing mirror of our beliefs (Texarkana Gazette)

5 Jul 2008

Editor’s note—This latest chapter of “The Measure of a Nation,� explores the role that America’s national monuments—and its capital city—play in shaping how we see ourselves.

Nation's capital: An ever-changing American mirror (Statesville Record & Landmark)

5 Jul 2008

The 32nd president stares resolutely from his wheelchair, cast in the kind of immortal bronze reserved for the leaders we remember as distant paragons of national virtue. Yet something seems ... amiss. First of all, he is at eye level: man, not god; among us, not above. Then there are the thighs, their metal worn down to a shade lighter than the rest of the statue. A schoolgirl runs up and ...