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...huddled refugees have become the emblem of his foreign policy, Bush has only himself to blame for giving it a sonorous title with the word new in it. The principles -- and the problems -- of the new world order have a long history in American foreign policy -- or better, foreign policies, since America has traditionally pursued two. The NWO echoes both...
...Confederacy. Three years ago, 14 black state legislators in Alabama were arrested for attempting to remove the Confederate flag, symbol of a slaveholders' rebellion, at the state capitol. In 1983 black students at the University of Mississippi succeeded in forcing the school to abandon the flag as its emblem...
Would it not be better to find an emblem that celebrates a South that people of all colors and backgrounds can br proud of? One that symbolizes not pain of the past but a vision of a better life for all Southerners? The Louisiana of Lindy Boggs and Dutch Morial? The Texas of Ann Richards? The Arkansas of Bill Clinton? The Florida of Claude Pepper? The Virginia of Douglas Wilder...
...Hollywood's taste for melodrama, you could see Clarice as an apt emblem of women in American movies. Patronized and endangered. Deemed too small, too soft to show muscle at the box office. Working -- or, more often, not working -- at the whim of the men who make the movies. According to the Screen Actors Guild, only 29.1% of all feature-film roles in 1989 went to women. The average male SAG member earned 60% more than the average female; of actors in their 50s, men earned 150% more. "It looks to me as though females get hired along procreative lines...
...church was sacked by anarchists in 1936, during Spain's civil war. Gaudi's drawings and plaster models went up in flames, but molds and photographs survived. Architect Jordi Bonet, who supervises the construction budget, says the opponents are "people who don't want a church as the emblem of our city." Moreover, Subirachs has publicly scorned the abstract artists favored by city hall in its Olympic building binge -- and the disdain is mutual. Says poet Joan Brossa: "Gaudi was avant-garde, but Subirachs is retro-garde...