Word: crosses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fans, the Bocuse might as well be the World Cup, so passionate (and loud) are their loyalties. Wearing T shirts with the red field and white cross of their national flag, the Swiss team rang cowbells and cheered with an intensity matched only by the home-team fans, who alternated between long, deafening horn blasts and belting out "Le Marseillaise." The British, a decidedly smaller delegation, hung T shirts printed with the encouragement "Allez les rosbifs" over the rails. Even South Korea - its fans dressed in chefs' whites, their faces painted with the national flag - managed to send...
...Kurds] think this town belongs to the Kurdistan government," said an Iraqi army officer who was present during the negotiations over election security in Khanaqin. "It was Bush, the father, who made a line [in 1991] where the Iraqi army was not allowed to cross. This town is south of the line. [Disputed polling sites in] Sheikh Baba and Jabara are south of the line too. They want to make the Kurdish government as big as they...
...even more impressive day from freshman sabre fencer Caroline Vloka. The rookie went 6-0 on the afternoon, including a win over Olympian Dagmara Wozniak. “Caroline’s had an incredible season, and she definitely showed that this weekend,” co-captain Emily Cross said. “She’s been performing at a really high standard. She’s just been doing really great. We’ve fenced a lot of great teams, so it was great to see her step up to the plate...
...mails of complaint and a series of protests outside its London and regional headquarters, the broadcaster has dug in its heels against pressure to run the filmed appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), a nonaligned umbrella organization representing 13 long-established charities such as the British Red Cross, Christian Aid and Oxfam. Defending the decision on one of the BBC's own morning news shows today, BBC director general Mark Thompson said, "We are passionate about our impartiality ... We worry about being seen to endorse something that could give the impression we were only backing one side...
...International Development Secretary, is dismayed. "While this decision is ultimately - and rightly - one for the broadcasters, it is the essence of humanitarian-aid agencies that they never take sides in a conflict. That is the long-standing position of the DEC and organizations such as the British Red Cross," he says. "The British public can distinguish between support for humanitarian aid and perceived partiality in a conflict. All I have asked the BBC and Sky to do is to publicize the means by which people can make donations to those organizations which are in a position to help." It will...