Word: flag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WIRE) NEW HAVEN, Conn.-- On the final day of last year's women's field hockey season, the seniors took down the practice field Yale flag, bringing a close to the season and their Yale careers. Earlier this week, that same flag was presented to present seniors Lindsay Hobbs and Abby Alt, and with it the leadership of the team. They hoisted the flag at the beginning of Thursday's practice...
...demonstrators gathered in Red Square. Bobbing along in their midst, under the shelter of the Kremlin's looming brick walls, was a placard that read 70 YEARS ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE. The accusation was an angry and poignant truth. But then Russia was reborn under the old tricolor flag and set a new course toward not just reform but total transformation. And now, with the collapse of the economy and the paralysis of the government, that hopeful path has also run into a dead end. For Russians it has been seven more years on a road that has again...
...Israel wants to take over and merge captured Arab territory into its lands, then in my opinion the best chance for peace is for the Israelis to create a new name and new flag for their country that both Jewish and Arab citizens can identify with. This change would have a deep impact on Arab views about participating in a country they once held and lost in war. PAUL ELLIOT Acton, Mass...
...shut down his investigation or urged Republicans to cease talk of impeachment if Clinton had followed his instruction, it was too late by speech time. The President had little left to lose. By being forced to testify, he'd given up just about everything. He'd raised the white flag on the Truman balcony, opened the gates to the enemy. Starr and his deputies invaded his house for six hours, asking graphic questions about extramarital sex while his daughter was in her room upstairs. Not only had Starr forced Clinton to come clean with his wife and daughter privately...
Your coverage of the shooting of two policemen in Washington's Capitol by a gunman left no stones unturned [NATION, Aug. 3]. The flag flew at half-staff to express Americans' concerns at the loss of these men, but maybe we should also mourn our justice system. Why should we spend effort, time and money to save the gunman's life, and perhaps pay attorneys to put him away for a couple of years? All this will be paid for by hardworking Americans, who would like to see this person put away where he belongs--in an unmarked grave...