Word: bannered
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Perhaps the sky so dominates the Russian earth that it compels thoughts of eternity. After decades of officially sponsored atheism, the Russians remain a profoundly spiritual people. To mark the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an enormous banner recently appeared on the facade of the Historical Museum in Red Square. It bore the slogan REVEREND FATHER SERGIUS, PRAY TO GOD FOR US. An outsider would see the irony in a saint occupying the spot once reserved for larger-than-life portraits of Marx and Lenin. Not a Russian. During a recent missionary crusade...
...reality has betrayed expectations, and independence has provoked new conflicts. On a cold afternoon in Riga's Freedom Square, an old man holds a banner listing Russia's crimes against the tiny nation of Latvia: OCCUPATION, GENOCIDE, TERROR. A young Russian woman approaches him. She talks, he shouts. His words vent the suppressed anger of a life spent under Moscow's thumb. Russians, who make up nearly half the population, must go, he says, or Latvia's culture will perish. The young woman walks away crying. A Russian man born in Latvia and determined to stay tries to argue...
Dunster House Music Society. Soprano Ellen Archer, violinist Dan Banner, cellist Olsen Young and pianist Michael Strauss will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn and Britten. Dunster House Music Library, 5:30 p.m. Free...
...Yard, the only prominent reminder of Election Day was a Holworthy banner advertising an election night party at the Institute of Politics...
Almost. That strategy did knock out Tsongas, leaving only Jerry Brown to carry the Anybody-but-Clinton banner. Brown himself was no threat, but if he could have bloodied Clinton enough in New York and Pennsylvania, he might have kept many uncommitted delegates from joining Clinton, prompted some late- starting candidates to jump in, and kept alive the possibility of a brokered convention. At this point, however, Clinton proved the value of having developed and touted a comprehensive economic program. Aside from some other stupid errors, Brown pinned all his hopes on an eccentric proposal for a flat tax that...