Word: bannering
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It’s hard to think about whether that banner also still hangs stubbornly. I can only think about my friend Aileen’s dad, and what it was like for him to stand on the boat and look up and watch a plane hit the World Trade Center...
...don’t feel much like taking the Delta Shuttle from Logan to LaGuardia. I take the train home instead. I can only imagine that Lower Manhattan looks smaller from above than it did, and assume that the “2000 National League Champs” banner still stubbornly hangs of the side of Shea...
...from there unless you happen to remember exactly where the towers were two months ago. I stare out at the water and watch the ferries coming and going from Staten Island. The last time I took the ferry, I came out only to see a big minor league baseball banner calling Staten Island “The Home of the New York-Penn League Champion Staten Island Yankees.” That’s changed now. The Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets’ minor league team, beat the Yankees to advance to the league championships. That series never...
...Finally, a delicious irony from India's Telegraph, a paper whose banner giddily proclaims it "unputdownable." The Calcutta paper reports that some 200 Mumbai (nee Bombay) restaurants had stopped serving Coke and Pepsi, offering only traditional Indian yoghurt drinks as a means of protesting U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan. Many more of the city's Muslim restaurateurs are expected to join the boycott of U.S. products. So the enterprising paper asked the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, which has previously organized similar boycotts to protest globalization's onslaught on Indian culture, whether the party would be joining. The boycott makes...
...they choose to tell the whole story as it unfolds, then Americans will see the gruesome reality of war-unprecedented since Viet Nam. And if this happens, President Bush’s plans for a protracted war on terrorism will be in jeopardy. Even those who raised the war banner last month will become squeamish when they see picture upon picture of starving Afghani children and blood-soaked bodies strewn in the streets of Kabul...