Word: flagging
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...DEAN OFFENSIVE OR JUST TOO HONEST IN SAYING HE WANTED THE SUPPORT OF "GUYS WITH CONFEDERATE FLAGS IN THEIR PICKUP TRUCKS"? As I told him afterward, if you had just said you want the support of Southern whites that drive pickup trucks, the same message would have got across. But when he threw in the Confederate flag, it showed a little bit of an incompatibility with national opinion...
...fact, the wider availability of the pill is something flag-toting, poster-brandishing right-to-lifers should be celebrating. The Alan Guttmacher Institute estimates that 51,000 abortions were prevented in 2000 due to better access to and better knowledge of emergency contraception. And over-the-counter availability is predicted to result in 1.7 million fewer unwanted pregnancies and 800,000 fewer abortions each year in the United States...
Hell hath no fury like a prime minister scorned, and Grant uses the following day’s press conference to take a swipe at his American counterpart. After the president, sporting the ubiquitous American flag pin, blithely asserts that the so-called “special relationship” between the two countries “remains special,” Grant strikes back. “I love that word relationship. It covers all manner of sins, doesn’t it?” says Grant. “I fear it has become a bad relationship...
...Kennedy School of Government (KSG), it’s the pro-Palestinian camp that says it’s been silenced. KSG officials blocked a student from carrying a Palestinian flag at a September luncheon celebrating the school’s 25th anniversary, noting that under University policy, only banners from countries officially recognized by the United States could appear at the event. That decision deeply offended many Arab students. “Just because there isn’t a Palestinian state doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t hope for it and shouldn?...
...More than 100 KSG students signed a petition protesting the school’s ruling on the flag issues. “In the context of my world, it is much more accepted, faddish, and in line with the politics of the more left-leaning schools to support the Palestinian cause,” the fearful doctoral candidate says...