Word: flag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freedom of speech, the press, religion, association and all that yada. Get down to the specifics, however, and it's a little different: 53 percent were against displaying art that may offend; 47 percent would ban songs with distasteful lyrics and 49 percent want a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning ? which, last time the courts checked, was a form of free speech...
...Columbia, the capital; he has three offices around the state, which happen to be in the largest media markets. He has left the legal trench fighting of the attorney general's office to his underlings and has instead focused on such high-profile issues as defending the Confederate flag and cracking down on pornographers. He is especially proud of his push to hasten the process of getting death-row inmates actually put to death. Two have been executed this year in South Carolina, but Condon expects the numbers to rise next year. (Sixty-nine prisoners in the state...
...STOP THE P.C. POLICE--The Undergraduate Council generally buys into any nonsense that can fly under the flag of political correctness, often neglecting reason and even common sense...
...army. He was a boy of 10 when the Cultural Revolution erupted in 1966, spreading fanaticism and witch hunts across the land. That is the world--and rampaging ideologues are some of the people--portrayed in the 12 stories that make up his second collection, Under the Red Flag (University of Georgia Press; 207 pages...
...moral quandary posed by this story--the difficulty, given the context of the people and mores of Dismount Fort, of defining proper or humane behavior--permeates Under the Red Flag. Ha Jin is not a preachy author. He offers his characters choices that are incompatible and potentially destructive and then dispassionately records what they do next...