Word: emblem
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Around 120 works tell the story. Bronx-born Weiner created the show's entrance - a long tunnel with portholes in the XXX shape of Amsterdam's ubiquitous crest, casting shadows of the emblem on visitors as they enter and making them "a part of his work," says Cherix. The show runs until...
...murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, 67, has already been reconstructed in chilling detail: the threats to Good Samaritans who tried to intervene, the single shot in a Wichita, Kans., church, the wailing wife, the gunman's powder-blue getaway car decorated with a red rose - an antiabortion emblem - and a Jesus fish. But specifics about the suspected shooter, Scott Roeder, 51, are only just starting to emerge. Roeder had been following, and decrying, Tiller's work - which included performing abortions after 21 weeks - for years. Early reports on Roeder, who was taken into custody shortly after the shooting...
...Australia Day this year, for the fourth time in a row since Cronulla, violent nationalism came to the fore. The flag - my flag - was the emblem of choice for drunken nationalist outbursts across the nation; in Wollongong, south of Sydney, Australia Day violence was the worst police had ever seen, with mobs of drunken, flag-clad teenagers brawling in the streets. In Manly, in north Sydney, an 80-strong flag-waving mob harassed and assaulted nonwhite passers-by and shop owners, jumped on cars and chanted "Aussie pride...
...Between the crosses, row on row." Moved, she vowed always to wear a silk poppy in honor of the American soldiers who gave up their lives for their country. She started selling them to friends and co-workers and campaigned for the red flowers to become an official memorial emblem. The American Legion embraced the symbol in 1921, and the tradition has spread to more than 50 other countries, including England, France and Australia. (Watch TIME's video "An 'Honor Flight' for WWII Vets...
...there's already been a ton of intrigue when this morning, race favorite I Want Revenge was pulled due to injury. Expect the winner of the Kentucky Derby to win the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness, but falter at The Belmont Stakes. Remember Funny Cide, War Emblem, Smarty Jones, and Big Brown? The entire feat hasn't been completed since Affirmed...