Word: flagging
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Entering the homestretch of its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court quickened its pace last week by issuing 23 decisions. In addition to its landmark judgment protecting flag burning as a form of free expression, the high bench announced a series of other important rulings in the areas of free speech and criminal law. Following past patterns, the Justices remained vigilant on First Amendment rights but continued to chip away at the constitutional safeguards of criminal defendants...
...American flag, that most inspiring of the nation's icons, has come to symbolize a great deal in its 212 years. It celebrates the country's history, its freedoms, and the battles fought to secure those freedoms. It embodies, often in an intensely emotional way, the love and loyalty most Americans feel for their country. It stands for the unity of one nation and for the individual rights of each citizen. And now, because of a landmark ruling by a deeply divided Supreme Court, the American flag represents a land where people have the right to burn the American flag...
Burn an American flag? The patriotic mind recoils. Reverence for the flag is ingrained in every schoolchild who has quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family's supreme sacrifice...
Flying a national championship banner above Newell Boathouse is nothing new for the men's heavy-weight crew program, but for the first time ever, there's a title flag flying high above Weld Boathouse, home of Radcliffe crew...
State police, moved in to supplement the understaffed local force, are concentrating on drug arrests and housing-project security. Selling crack has become the city's biggest business, and is so widespread that peddlers sometimes flag down motorists on nearby I-70 to hawk crack packets at $20 a pop. Traffic backups on city streets often turn out to be buyers lined up at drive-through crack houses...