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...criticism mounted, Hanfstaengl was pressured into resigning his marshal position. The New York Times reported on June 12, 1934, that he would remain in Germany, but two days later ran a banner headline on page one announcing his decision to attend the reuinion anyway...
Harvard has been chronically unable to break the hammerlock that Penn and Princeton have held on the Ivy League title. The only member of the league that has failed to bring home at least one championship banner, the Crimson has merely looked on as either Penn or Princeton has won every crown in the past 16 seasons. Harvard has reason to believe, however, that it can reverse history in one fell swoop this weekend and shake up the Ancient Eight...
...launching a campaign to "consolidate the ruling status" of the Communist Party. His most significant comments in the days following Zhao's death were instructions to aim the campaign at the demographic group that had marched into Tiananmen Square in 1989. Hu warned in a speech excerpted under a banner headline on the front page of the People's Daily on Jan. 19 that China must "improve the political thinking of university students to elevate the Party's ruling power...
...read a copy, Hu said China would never have its own Gorbachev, referring to the Soviet Union leader whose commitment to openness and reform in the 1980s hastened the end of Communist Party rule there. In the speech, according to the source, Hu railed against people who "fly the banner of democracy and political reform" and said the Party must be "pre-emptive" and "strike when they rear their heads...
...survey, 12% of locals could not tell their flag from Australia's. Some would prefer the banner above, depicting the silver fern, a Kiwi icon