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...civil rights issues like racial profiling, hate crimes and affirmative action, Gore's record stands in clear contrast to that of Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Earlier this year, Bush consistently refused to utter a critical word about the Confederate flag flying over the statehouse in South Carolina. He even suggested that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an "outsider" and should "butt out" of the controversy. When given the chance to speak out against a symbol of racism and treason, he could not muster the courage or the leadership to condemn...
...Ramallah, the police station was reduced to rubble after being hammered by the rockets, and flames poured out of a second building. An angry mob gathered outside the station, shouting "God is great" and raising a Palestinian flag on a damaged wall...
...packed full of explosives, it?s relatively safe to assume the attack is not unrelated to the violence currently unfolding in the Palestinian territories. That?s not to imply in any way that the perpetrators were Palestinian - the U.S. has plenty of enemies throughout the Arab world, and its flag has been torched all over the Middle East in the past two weeks as protestors express their outrage over the shooting of some 90 Palestinians by Israeli security forces. Washington?s perceived, indeed stated, pro-Israeli bias in dealing with the Middle East has dissolved any distinction between...
Freeman hasn't shied from the issues. When she won her first big international title at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, B.C., she took a victory lap draped in the Aboriginal flag. Some Australians condemned her, but others who were trying to change the country's thinking adopted Freeman. Slowly, she developed into an admired character, not least because she continued to succeed, eventually winning two world championships...
...over but the shouting. Preparations at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts, site of the first round of the 2000 presidential debates, are winding down. And so are the last-minute arrangements in the Bush and Gore camps: The rehearsals, the tie selections (is an American flag too much?), the nagging worries (will there be a glass of water waiting or do I have to risk pouring it myself and spilling it all over the podium?) have been confronted...