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Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 55
No full textBosniak DiasporaV55Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 59
No full textBosniak DiasporaVI59Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 05
No full textBosniak DiasporaI5Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 60
No full textBosniak DiasporaVI60Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Plima Magazin 1.5
No full textNovembar/Decembar 1997I5Plima Obiteljski Magazin is a bi-monthly Bosnian-language publication that was published in St. Louis, Missouri between 1997 and 2000. It was created by journalist, editor, and publisher Dijana Groth in response to increasing numbers of refugees resettling in St. Louis from her home country of (former) Yugoslavia. With an entertaining and informative format, Groth used PLIMA – translated to Ocean (New) Tide and geared at the whole family – to address the needs and concerns of the newly arrived refugees.Missing: Godina I, Broj 1; none published in August 1999. Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Sunrise
No full textScannedII011SabaH is a Bosnian-language weekly newspaper that was published in the United States between December 1997 and October 2014. It was founded in Astoria, NY. In 2006, publishing was relocated to St. Louis, MO, but the newspaper continued its national distribution. A typical issue contains about 50 pages and features bold headlines and many photos, with articles from both Bosnia- and US-based contributors. SabaH was established to help Bosnian immigrants deal with life in their new home and keep them informed of events in their war-torn country. Its name translates to 'sunrise', symbolizing the arrival of a new generation of Bosnian immigrants in the US.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Susan Powers of St. Louis, MO. Digitization is ongoing
Sunrise
No full textScannedII042SabaH is a Bosnian-language weekly newspaper that was published in the United States between December 1997 and October 2014. It was founded in Astoria, NY. In 2006, publishing was relocated to St. Louis, MO, but the newspaper continued its national distribution. A typical issue contains about 50 pages and features bold headlines and many photos, with articles from both Bosnia- and US-based contributors. SabaH was established to help Bosnian immigrants deal with life in their new home and keep them informed of events in their war-torn country. Its name translates to 'sunrise', symbolizing the arrival of a new generation of Bosnian immigrants in the US.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Susan Powers of St. Louis, MO. Digitization is ongoing
University News - Volume 098, Issue 009 (January 31, 2019)
No full text24 pages.VOL. XCVIII No. 9 / January 31, 2019
Cover Design by Rebecca LiVigni
UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
70 Years Later...
f this happens to this kid, could it
happen to us?” said John Waide, a
40-year historian and SLU alumus,
as he questioned the phenomenon
that took place on SLU’s very own
campus in 1949.
Even today, the exorcism
of St. Louis is only dared to be whispered in ru-mor
or heresay. Now, on its 70th anniversary, the
question of what exactly happened still haunts
us—especially with the exaggerated portrayal of
the events from the 1973 movie “The Exorcist.”
Contrary to popular belief, there is more to the
story than a creaky fourth floor in the oldest
building on our campus.
Robbie Mannheim, the alias for the child
who fell victim to these chilling events, experi-enced
strange symptoms for four months in 1949.
His troubles began with peculiar noises, such as
scratching and dripping, as well as various ob-jects,
including holy water being thrown against
the wall—until one day, he became the target. He
discovered several marks engraved on his body
spelling bone-chilling messages of “Hell” and lat-er,
“Louis.”
With the situation worsening in their
Maryland residence, Mannheim’s family took the
message “Louis” as a sign to move him to the St.
Louis area to live with relatives. It was also the
place where his recently deceased aunt had lived.
These strange events started to take place around
the time of her death, after he had apparently
tried contacting her using a Ouija board.
But that was only the beginning.
Mannheim’s condition still worsened
in the Bel Nor home in St. Louis. A relative of
Mannheim’s who was attending SLU and was an
inhabitant of the Mann-heims’
home confided in
one of her professors, the
Rev. Bishop, about the
crisis. This spurred the
involvement of several
SLU faculty and priests.
One in particular, the Rev.
Bowdern, recognized that
something was not right.
Bowdern and oth-er
SLU faculty then decid-ed
an exorcism was necessary as a last ditch effort
to rid Mannheim of whatever—or whoever—was
tormenting his spirit. Bowdern attempted the
exorcism rituals several different times despite
growing opposition from Mannheim. On Easter
weekend, while Mannheim was staying at the
Alexian Brothers Hospital, Bowdern knew that his
efforts had finally worked when Mannheim ex-claimed
suddenly that “[He] was gone.”
Waide recounts conversations that he had
with two relatives of Bowdern, the primary exor-cist,
and offers that he found it “particularly com-pelling”
that “they both said that Father Bowdern
had lost nearly 40 pounds over this ordeal” as well
as the fact that “he truly believed that he was in a
battle with the devil, a true possession.”
To what extent did Mannheim’s mon-strosities
reach our SLU campus? At least to
Waide’s knowledge, it did not happen in the loca-tions
generally speculated. In fact, Waide claims
that Mannheim was never in places like DuBourg
or Verhaegen Hall, rather he had been moved back
and forth between the old rectory of St. Francis
College Church and his home in Bel Nor for sev-eral
weeks during the exorcism. The rectory has
since been torn down to make room for a new rec-tory.
Beyond SLU, Mannheim’s story has in-fected
pop culture. In addition to the book “The
Exorcist” published in 1971, the film rendition
based on his story was produced soon after. Sev-eral
other movies portraying other exorcism ep-isodes
followed, as well as a more recent docu-mentary
released in 2015, titled “Exorcism: LIVE”
which offers an in-depth look at the St. Louis
house where Mannheim had lived. Even Waide’s
presentations about the exorcism have been at-tended
by thousands. “People are fascinated by
it,” said Waide.
Randy McGuire, a colleague of Waide’s,
interviewed the author of “The Exorcist,” William
Peter Blatty. In this interview Blatty makes an im-portant
connection between the significance of
the book and movie to its title. “Everyone misses
the point of the book and the movie,” said Blat-ty.
”It was about the priests and what they do to
help the boy.” Blatty’s statement highlights the
significant efforts of Bowdern, Bishop and many
other SLU faculty in the
treatment of the boy and
their willingness to help
someone in need.
Waide acknowledges
that he himself still “has a
lot of questions” that have
gone unanswered. He does
not identify as a skeptic in
the matter, but rather en-courages
those that want
to learn more to “be crit-ical
in their evaluations and studies.” He suggests
looking to resources such as the published diary
of Bishop, who was one of the SLU exorcists. The
full version is included in the book “The Posses-sion”
by Thomas Allen, who is another expert on
the ordeal.
To sum up the entire ordeal, Waide states
that “people believe what they want to believe.”
Whether you are a believer or a skeptic,
there is no escaping the fact that the infamous
exorcism of 1949 is—and will always be—a part of
SLU’s history.
THE EXORCISM THAT HAUNTS SLU 70 YEARS LATER
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By CAROLINE LIPSKI
Staff Writer
(Rebecca LiVigni/The University News)
“He discovered several
marks engraved on his
body spelling bone-chilling
messages of
‘Hell’ and later, ‘Louis.’”
“Women often resort
to using rags, paper
towels, toilet paper
and even diapers
during their monthly
cycle in order to overt
the extra funds.”
News 03
n Ethiopia, the
school dropout
rate for girls re-mains
at a stag-gering
51 per-cent,
according
to the Dignity
Period project, a
main cause for
dropouts being the lack of access
to menstruation products.
Despite taking place half-way
across the world, this prob-lem
is not foreign to St. Louis.
Women of low income
populations in St. Louis strug-gle
every day for the essentials:
enough money for their rent, food
and bills. However, one basic ne-cessity
is not often regarded as
essential—menstrual products.
The simple reality for
these women is that it is essential.
According to Plan International,
1 in 10 women struggle to afford
menstrual hygiene products when
they need them—a problem that
is far more prevalent for women
in low income populations.
This reality was the mo-tivation
for Anne Sebert Kuhl-mann,
Ph.D.
Kuhlmann, a professor
and master’s program director of
public health at SLU, realized her
study on low income women’s
menstrual health in St. Louis was
more necessary than she ever ex-pected.
“About 64 percent of the
low income women that we sur-veyed
could not afford menstrual
hygiene products in the past year
when they needed them,” Kuhl-mann
said. “We thought we would
document some need, but when
we talk about 64 percent of the
women that we talked to, that’s
very pervasive.”
Kuhlmann credits the
“economic cost of being a wom-an”
for this
incredibly
high statis-tic.
“ I f
you think
about a
man and a
woman liv-ing
on very
l o w - i n -
come, mak-ing
ends
meet, there
are additional costs that women
have in order to participate fully
in society, that, in this case, men
don’t have,” she said.
Kuhlmann claims that
there is an “economic cost of
having to provide extra supplies,
yet we have nothing in our safety
net system that helps provide for
them.”
With no safety net in
place, women in low income pop-ulations
already face a unique
challenge; however, that is not
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the extent of their economic obsta-cles.
The extra “cost of being a wom-an”
can also be seen in the selective
exemption of items subject to a sales
tax.
According to NPR, items like
ChapStick, Viagra and dandruff sham-poo
have no sales tax in many states
due to their “healthcare” uses; how-ever,
period products are taxed this
way—or even luxury taxed—in some
places.
This can increase the price
of period products by 10 percent of
the item’s
amount, ac-cording
to
Kuhlmann’s
research—a
significant
increase for
many wom-en.
Because
of this, wom-en
often re-sort
to using
rags, paper
towels, toilet
paper and even diapers during their
monthly cycle in order to overt the
extra funds.
Menstrual hygiene is not de-tached
from other areas of a woman’s
life, either; the effects of a woman’s
period can extend into other areas of
health and lifestyle.
“Women often miss school
or work because of their periods” and
“because of not having products,” said
Kuhlmann.
According to Kuhlmann, this
is especially true for women working
hourly jobs that don’t provide sick
leave. By missing a day or two a month
due to a lack of menstrual products, it
can disturb their economic stability—
in addition to their mental health.
“It can affect your job. It can
affect your progress in education. You
can also imagine how it affects a wom-an’s
self-worth and dignity, not being
able to care and provide for yourself,”
said Kuhlmann.
Fortunately, though, Kuhl-mann
believes the study was pub-lished
at the perfect time for a reso-lution.
Dignity Period, in partnership
with the St. Louis Alliance for Peri-od
Supplies, is starting a program in
St. Louis to dispense reusable pads
to women in need. The Alliance will
work similarly to the Diaper Bank in
St. Louis in that they will purchase,
collect and store menstrual products,
then partner with organizations that
work directly with women from low
income populations to distribute
them.
Although this is a great re-lief
to the problem now, Kuhlmann
thinks the key to creating a lasting
solution is in policy-making. Since
2017, there’s been a bill in the Missou-ri
House focused on taxing menstrual
hygiene products and diapers at the
lower food sales tax rate. However, it
has not received a hearing.
Kuhlmann hopes that because
of how widely the study has spread,
particularly in an upcoming issue of
the esteemed publication “Obstetrics
& Gynecology,” it will help illustrate
the importance of this issue.
“We will have to see at this
legislative session with this new
awareness whether the bill is intro-duced
again and whether it receives
a hearing in the legislative process,”
said Kuhlmann.
Kuhlmann’s study has made a
large impact on the St. Louis commu-nity,
as well as the nation. But what’s
made her feel the proudest through-out
the entire project is bringing
awareness to the issue. “We thought it
would generate some attention, but I
think it’s gone way beyond what we’ve
imagined,” she said.
Knowing that people will see
the problem’s magnitude and use it
to establish and expand programs to
help St. Louis women is what Kuhl-mann
desires for the future.
However, Kuhlmann’s ulti-mate
hope is that her work will be a
stepping stone to finally ending wom-en’s
struggle to afford menstrual hy-giene
products, period.
By RILEY MACK
News Editor
Photo Courtesy of Diane Chatman
NEW SLU STUDY GAINS NATIONAL ATTENTION
ate Tuesday and into
Wednesday, much of the
Midwest experienced plum-meting
temperatures that
froze even the grittiest
Americans. While the wind
chill in St. Louis did not
plummet to Chicago’s degree, its sub-zero
temperatures resulted in school cancella-tions
and early closures of businesses. At
approximately 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Kent Por-terfield,
Saint Louis University’s vice pres-ident
for student development, sent a cam-pus-
wide email warning students, staff and
faculty of dangerously low temperatures and
the clothing that should be worn to avoid
frostbite.
But what if students could not afford
warm winter coats?
What if they did not have a suitable
place to sleep?
While many SLU students are priv-ileged
enough to have a warm place to stay
and proper clothing during the polar vortex,
student Devonn Thomas believed Porter-field’s
email should have addressed those
who did not have access to such commod-ities.
She wanted a shelter to also be made
available for the homeless community out-side
of SLU.
Thomas wasted no time to address
her concern with Porterfield and Jonathan
Smith, vice president for diversity and com-munity
engagement. “At 3 p.m., I walked to
[Smith’s office] and said that we need some
place for people to stay tonight because it
was cold out,” Thomas said. “He hesitated for
maybe 30 seconds, and said ‘Devonn, what
are you talking about?’ I told him that people
are cold, and we have so much access at SLU.
It makes no sense to not use our resources
for people who need them.”
The likeliness of acquiring a space
last minute was slim, though, according to
Porterfield. Out of the activist organizations
that Thomas reached out to to implement
the initiative, SLU’s Labre became an inte-gral
factor in enabling its success.
“[Dr. Porterfield and Dr. Smith] fig-ured
things out administratively, like how
we have a building,” Thomas said. “I chose
Il Monastero at first because I knew that it is
a nice building and had private rooms. There
were a bunch of rapid-fire ideas coming out,
so we talked to Tim Huffman, who is the
leader of Labre, and he agreed to help staff.”
Il Monastero sheltered 11 people
in its 12-room facility from 7 p.m. Tuesday
to 9 a.m. Wednesday. By early evening, over
25 students, faculty and staff donated coats,
gloves, hats and scarves for the homeless to
use. Thomas explained that patrons were
able to watch movies and play games in the
separate spaces while enjoying a cooked
meal. Separate bedrooms also allowed for
privacy and inclusivity of the LGBTQ+ com-munity,
according to Thomas.
“So many shelters are not inclusive
of people who are queer and trans,” she said.
“It is their active choice to have non-gen-dered
spaces and non-gendered rooming,
and it is important to us because we know
what it means to be marginalized on the
margins. They are already homeless, but
some are homeless and trans or homeless
and queer.”
Thomas, Huffman and Labre stu-dents
sheltered the homeless through Thurs-day
morning – but on Wednesday night, oc-cupants,
which included the homeless and
volunteers, were housed at Manresa Center.
STUDENTS SHELTER A COMMUNITY IN CRISIS
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By MEREDYTH STAUNCH
Editor-in-Chief
Photo Courtesy of Riley Tovornik
SAVANAH’S
SGA UPDATE
JAN. 23, 2019
Legislation passed:
Remaining empty Senate seats were filled.
Men’s Club Volleyball was provided Spot Funding
for an upcoming competition.
The Ignatian Action Team was provided Wellness
Funding.
JAN. 30, 2019
Legislation passed:
Pencils of Promise was provided New Charter
Funding.
Women’s Club Volleyball was provided Spot
Funding for an upcoming national competition.
German Club was chartered as a Chartered Stu-dent
Organization.
Spanish Club was chartered as a Chartered Stu-dent
Organization.
The facility allowed for 30 occupants, and 27
stayed the night.
While the initiative was successful in
providing the necessary clothing and room
and board, Huffman expressed how there
were multiple ways of responding to the cri-sis.
“Clearly, it was a weather crisis,” he said.
“[The question was raised as to whether] we
should open a new shelter or could we have
supported an existing shelter. My dream is
that this the start of a very serious conver-sation
in which we think about our roles in
the community and how we can respond and
plan better.”
Huffman said that he is proud of how
quickly SLU responded to helping the home-less,
but he also said that the community
should not stop with just sheltering.
“We wouldn’t need emergency shel-ters
if we were better at housing people,”
Huffman said.
The President of the Student Government
Association’s decision to sign a Student Body
President’s Comment on a Title IX Proposal to
the United States Government was affirmed. The
comment was also signed by numerous universi-ties
across the United States.
or women during
World War II, it
was Rosie the
Riveter telling
them “We Can
Do It” that mo-tivated
them
to step into the
male-dominat-ed
workforce; for college-aged fe-males
today, it is breaking the glass
ceiling.
Women in majority-male
workplaces can expect to face
struggles like a large wage gap, a
lack of respect from coworkers and
clients, feeling as if they are work-ing
under a microscope and higher
reports of sexual harassment, ac-cording
to Pew Research.
The key to helping
strengthen the number of females
in male-dominated workforces is
encouraging them at college ages
to continue on their path. Many
women throughout college are dis-couraged
by professors, mentors
and even parents to go into careers
that society has deemed more mas-culine.
Because of this pressure,
many female students do not grad-uate
with the degree they intended.
However, Christina Con-nell,
an aviation flight science ma-jor
at SLU is one exception.
Since Connell is one of two
female aviation students in her ju-nior
class, she is already experienc-ing
how unequal the ratio of gen-der
is within the aviation field – a
historically male-dominated field,
with over 93 percent of all pilots
being male.
“I came from an all-girls
Catholic high school. My parents
joke that I went from an all-girls
school to an all-boys school,” said
Connell.
Connell discovered her
dream of being a pilot because of
her parents, who are both pilots for
United Airlines. Being behind the
controls for the first time made her
realize how much she wanted to
make it her career. After that, she
loved “the empowerment aspect”
of telling everyone what she want-ed
to do with her future.
Without growing up sur-rounded
by aviation, however,
Connell may have never found her
passion. Aviation “is not exposed
to women as much as it is exposed
to men,” she said.
Marketing, media and the
environment begin to influence
a person’s future career choice at
a young age. For example, when
computers were first marketed to-ward
boys in 1991, the number of
females in computer science ca-reers
experienced a drop.
Although, Connell and
other young supporters have be-come
advocates for women find-ing
their place in male-dominated
work forces. Connell is the pres-ident
of an organization at SLU
called Women in Aviation, which
gives out scholarships and exposes
the next generation to the field of
aviation.
Her predominant motiva-tion
through the club is “exposing
younger girls to this opportuni-ty
and showing them that even if
you can’t fully pay for it, there are
scholarships out there,” Connell
said.
This is just one way in
which women can be exposed to
new fields that are notoriously
male dominated. Across the coun-try,
there are similar organizations
that aim to close these gaps.
At SLU alone, other orga-nizations
like Society of Women
Engineers and American Medical
Women’s Association offer female
students support in navigating
fields with statistically less wom-en.
The encouragement and
promotion of women in these fields
are ways that these fields can be-come
more diverse. Not only will
this help women to be more rep-resented,
it advances women’s ef-forts
in the workforce in regard to
pay and developing a positive work
atmosphere.
Like women everywhere,
Connell looks to the future, stating,
“I want to fly with my mom one day.
She has eight years until she retires
from United – hopefully, we would
be the first mother daughter crew
at United in San Francisco.” This
sentiment more broadly reflects
SOARING THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING
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Illustration Courtesy of
Ashlee Kothenbeutel
DPS
REPORTS
On 1/28, it was discovered that
three pounds of beef short ribs
were stolen from the lower
level produce cooler of the BSC
sometime over the weekend.
The cooler was supposed to
have been locked, but it is sus-pected
that a new employee left
it open by mistake.
On 1/29, DPS was notified of a
student’s experience returning
to her unlocked car to find a
middle-aged man, dressed in
all black, sitting in the driver’s
seat. The student watched from
afar as the suspect exited the
vehicle and walked out of view.
There appeared to be nothing
missing within the vehicle. DPS
were also contacted by anoth-er
student who had witnessed
a similarly described suspect
looking into her parked car.
At 1:31am on 1/30 a DPS of-ficer
encountered a non-SLU
affiliated individual near the
vending area. SLMPD were
notified and took custody of
the individual after the DPS
officer made a REJIS check,
revealing that the suspect had
two active warrants.
By RILEY MACK
News Editor
the dreams many women have
when making their career choices.
The future of these indus-tries
depends on drawing from a di-verse
workforce that cultivates an
environment that inspires and wel-comes
everyone. Just as Rosie the
Riveter signified a milestone for
women during World War II, wom-en
like Connell continue to break
glass ceilings.
06 Arts and life
ehinde Wiley, who
painted President
Obama’s official
portrait for the
Smithsonian Na-tional
Portrait
Gallery, current-ly
has a featured
collection at the Saint Louis Art
Museum until Feb. 10. In these 11
stunning portraits, Wiley reinter-prets
classical works of Western art
to replace white, often aristocratic
subjects with African Americans
from St. Louis and Ferguson. Eight
of the original pieces Wiley uses
as inspiration can be found in the
Saint Louis Art Museum.
Although Wiley’s subjects strike
nearly the same poses as the land-ed
gentry of the works in the muse-um,
he adds several twists that give
this collection a full life of its own.
What is most extraordinary about
them is that they are all from north
St. Louis and Ferguson and were
approached on the street by Wiley
himself. It is incredibly uncommon
and refreshing to see everyday
people portrayed with the same
dignity as that of the president.
A lover of art history, the 41-year-old
Wiley’s reinterpretation is pur-poseful.
He grew up in South Cen-tral
Los Angeles, and his interest in
art began at a young age when his
mother enrolled him in after-school
art classes. His work seeks in part to
address the absence of positive de-pictions
of black people in Western
art, particularly portraiture, which
has historically been reserved for
only the most wealthy and privi-leged
individuals. Wiley stated in
one interview, “I wanted to be able
to treat them with the same loving
hand, with the same attention to
detail that was devoted to some of
the most powerful people in