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[UPDATE] Sentinel December 1st - Kindling of the Flame

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sledgecallier
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[UPDATE] Sentinel December 1st - Kindling of the Flame

Just noticed this has gone up on the Sentinel website.

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Mild Winter May Delay Kindling
The Brotherhood of the Six has warned that this year's late winter will likely delay the annual Kindling of the Flame. Meterologists have widely predicted this winter will be warm and dry, a pleasant change after heavy rains in the spring. (Full text)

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:42 pm

cassandra
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Controversial Exhibit Attracts Crowds
By LUCAS VOORHIES

Despite ongoing rallies by protesters, the Academy Museum's extremely controversial war exhibit has drawn strong attendance numbers through its first weeks of opening. The museum reports that traffic through the exhibit is on the order of thousands a day, steadily increasing through a peak of nearly 8,000 visitors last Saturday.

"The queues are really incredible," said museum spokesman Gerard Owling. "We're seeing people waiting for four and five hours to participate." Owling indicated that if the museum had a higher capacity, the numbers might be even higher. "We obviously don't want people to rush through this experience," he said. "We find a lot of visitors are lingering in some of the galleries for up to an hour."

Several members of protest group Peace Watchers called the attendance numbers "shameful." Soo-Yung Rosenthal, the activist who founded Peace Watchers, said that the numbers don't indicate popular support for the exhibit. "What we're seeing here is the natural result of curiosity," Rosenthal said. "After the people of the city have heard so much about this awful exhibit, they want to come and see it,to make an informed opinion. ... We're seeing many people step out of the museum and come join the ranks of protesters right away."

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Museum curator Anja Marlowe, the brain behind the exhibit and its design, is unabashedly proud of the results for her work, however. "It's definitely gratifying to see so many people come to see our true history," she said. "I strongly believe that the truth should always be revealed."

Visitors coming out of the museum were mixed in their response. While most agreed that the exhibit was done in a "tasteful and sensitive manner," a significant fraction still felt that the exhibit should be shut down. "It's too painful to look at all of this tragedy at once," said Gisele Derringer, a 23-year-old Academy student. "I think Professor [Estelle] Sedgewick is right, and we shouldn't condone this villification of our ancestors."

Owling said that the attendance numbers are record-setting for the museum, with a typical exhibit drawing a scant two thousand visitors a day, on average.

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# Alleged Arsonist Charged
# Art Heist Film Planned
# Orson Steps Down

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COVERAGE GAPS

The Sentinel never has any good news anymore! Where are the celebrations of our city's fine heritage and accomplishments? Last week, I attended a deeply moving performance of Triumph in a local theatre in the artist's quarter. Did this performance receive a review in your paper? Only a two-line summary! It is about time we started to appreciate what we have in this city, instead of constantly complaining.

Warner Elmerway

I have written to you several times on the subject of the appalling service now operating on the Perplex City subway system. Why, I was held up for almost *four minutes* last night on my journey home! This is a matter of extreme importance to the city, but your newspaper has clearly become dazzled by the culture of Earth, to the detriment of your city news coverage. Where is the campaigning spirit of the Sentinel of old?

Jeanne Loamming

LEADERBOARD CONTROVERSY

After recently reading the outrageous letter written by Ryan Andrew (the supposed name of the enigmatic culprit known only as Ryanandrew) I have come to the conclusion that I was wrong to demand his stoning. Anyone who savagely thrashes two innocent albino children and a quadriplegic 80 year old women with a lead pipe deserves much worse than a simple stoning. I call for the creation of a committee whose sole purpose will be the invention of a befitting method of execution for Ryan Andrew. I think that the heinous nature of his crimes, as well as the disturbing way in which he publicly boasts about them, warrant a particularly gruesome punishment. I suggest something involving a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants. I'm not sure what one could do with those things, but whatever it is it'll be excruciatingly painful.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to respond to Ms. Natasha Aldridge's letter about the "benighted fools" who are trying to save her precious Receda Cube this very moment. How very hypocritical of Ms. Aldridge to view our society as "primitive" when, in fact, her own city eradicated all of its neighbors in order to end a prolonged and bloody war less then 300 years ago. If an outsider were to compare our societies, which would he/she deem more barbaric? Our history may be violent, but it is something we have been able to accept and learn from. Perplex City can only maintain its sense of cultural superiority by hiding its dark secrets from foreigners. As we have learned more and more about the truth behind Perplex City's seemingly flawless facade, I have become increasingly angered by the haughtiness of Perplexians who dare to scoff at us when they can not even face the brutality of their own history. I think that Perplexians should think twice from now on before looking down their noses at us.

Ankit Jain, Hooville, Earth

PS. Hooville, indeed Razz

PPS. Dear Sentinel: Vilification.

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:09 pm

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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:57 am

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I wouldnt worry so much about getting a lawyer if I were you, i'd stock up on calamine lotion for those fire ants. Shocked

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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:26 am

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