Word: banners
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...world's highest mountain; Chinese authorities recently announced that they are closing their side of Everest - the northern slopes - because of overcrowding and environmental concerns. Most climbers believe the real reason is that China wants to prevent any demonstrations that would mar the event. Last year, climbers unfurled a banner at Everest base camp playing on the Beijing Olympic Slogan: "One World, one Dream, Free Tibet 2008," the banner read...
...what next" ran the banner headline on the left-leaning daily Radikal. "Close down parliament then" said the mainstream Sabah...
...China is strong because we are on our knees," read a big red banner held aloft by half a dozen youngsters with Tibetan flags painted on their faces, gathered at Dharamsala's central Tsulagkhang Temple early Sunday. As hundreds of Tibetans and their supporters streamed in, trampling over Chinese flags strewn along the way, more banners appeared: "This is the moment - now or never"; "Shall we be slave or be free?" Shouts of "Pogyalo" - Free Tibet! - rose up to express solidarity with a long-planned "Dharamsala to Lhasa" march that started on March 10, as hundreds of yellow and brown...
...entrance to Cambridge Common, is a marble gateway topped with an ironwork trellis. At the center of the trellis, a lone Native American stares out enigmatically from a shield, a star over his right shoulder. Above his head a disembodied hand clutches a sword. Below, engraved on a banner, is the inscription, “ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,” a Latin phrase meaning, “by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty...
...freedom is a muscle that strengthens with proper exercise. On March 10 and 11, monks took to the streets in Tibet demanding autonomy for their region. It was the largest demonstration there since 1989. Meanwhile, the banner of China's robust economy shows signs of fraying just as the government prepares to run it up the Olympic flagpole. Inflation, contaminated goods and industrial pollution all underscore the fact that China, too, is bound by the laws and limitations of economic development. Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, world-record holder in the marathon, won't run that event in Beijing for fear...