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...rush of people flowed from the massive green. Far from a silent, self-reflective end to a mass, the “Croats” (really, they are Bosnians per their nationality, though they call themselves Croats) began singing loud Catholic folk music, waving red-and-white checkerboard flags, wearing shirts of the same colors, passing close to Serb military men who didn’t look at all amused by these outbursts. The same flag remembered largely as the symbol of Croatia’s fascist regime during World War II, under which proper Croats made refugees...
That said, my return to Gracanica was not without some cool Papal loot including a guidebook to Catholicism in Bosnian, a bona fide Bosnian flag and a bright yellow hat decorated with pictures of the Pope. Sunny as it was, I thought about wearing this hat into Gracanica before realizing the emblem would not likely sit well in a town filled with minarets, where vandalizing the old Orthodox Church is a favorite area hobby. The Pope had come on a mission of reconciliation and peace. What I’d seen were fervored Catholic Bosnians waving Croatian flags, a great...
...grocery stores and gas stations in nine major cities across the country. The 1,400-odd USAgain bins collected 8 million lbs. of clothing last year. LET YOUR USED CLOTHES GET A SECOND LIFE, reads a sign on these checkered boxes, all of which are emblazoned with an American flag as well as a triangular recycling logo. But only some of the bins reveal a key detail: USAgain (pronounced "use again") is not a charity but "a clothing recycling business" that sells the bulk of these donated items to Third World countries...
...operating post office and the Franklin Court Printing Office are situated next to the Market Street entrance to Franklin Court. The post office is the only one in the U.S. that does not fly a flag, because when Franklin was appointed the first American Postmaster General, in 1775, the nation had not yet come into being...
...lose market share," gripes Klaus-J. Meyer, who runs a Brussels-based association of private rail-freight operators. Mario Monti, the E.U.'s tough antitrust Commissioner, made it clear at a rail conference last year that he won't tolerate merely shifting the monopoly; he warned state-owned flag carriers that they "do not have blanket immunity from the competition rules." Rolf Georg is testing to make sure. He owns a four-person firm, based in Frankfurt, that runs an overnight sleeper service between Berlin and Malmö, Sweden. When DB charged him what he says were exorbitant prices...