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...attacks to achieve his pre-Sept. 11 budgetary and foreign policy objectives. In a column on February 5, 2002, he wrote, “In short, the administration’s strategy is to prevent criticism of what amounts to a fiscal debacle by wrapping its budget in the flag.” Krugman even labels a section of his book “A Vast Conspiracy?,” having no qualms about resurrecting the phrase that Hillary Clinton infamously invoked during the Lewinsky scandal...
Former Miss Americas pass by, valiant and coiffed. Last year’s queen, Erika Harold, towers in a skin-tight American-flag getup, surrounded by red, white and blue potted silk flowers. Miss Florida shakes her fake-fur stole, dripping with plastic oranges...
...Last September, I joined thousands of other protesters at the World Bank and IMF demonstrations in Washington, D.C. A colorful assemblage, the marchers represented a diverse spectrum of concerns and movements. Global health activists (including myself), environmentalists, labor rights activists and the ever-photogenic flag-burning anarchists all gathered to voice their criticisms of the World Bank and the IMF. While some of the protesters demanded outright abolition of these institutions, many others called for changes of a different sort. They were concerned about the pernicious effects of particular policies or the adverse consequences of specific institutional structures...
...needn't stand in the block-long queues for illuminating movie chat. You could simply flag a cab. One Toronto taxi driver-we'll call him Mohsen-launched into a passionate lecture on the state of Iranian cinema, listing the names of Iranian directors who had new work on show. "Of course the master is Kiarostami," he said, as if that name would be as familiar to his passengers as Spielberg...
Forget China's astronauts. The country's most famous intergalactic traveler lives in the last house on his lane at the edge of a Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked...