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...think it would be a simple matter to draft a constitutional amendment prohibiting the burning of flags. Flags and fire: two fairly straightforward concepts. And everything was going smoothly with the House Judiciary Committee's deliberations earlier this month until one of the amendment's supporters, Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, whipped out a Bloomingdale's catalog showing Tommy Hilfiger men's briefs in flag motifs. The ensuing discussion raised profound issues, which deserve our full attention as the amendment proceeds to the floor of the House and thence to the states. Take the question, for example, of whether...
...citizen may feel entitled to ask how much of our Congress member's time is devoted to the close study of underwear ads. But Reed was trying to make a serious point: that it's not easy to define the word flag. If the members of the committee got out more often, they would know that some of the most patriotic buns and bosoms on our beaches come wrapped in Old Glory or tiny fragments thereof. Are these bits of fabric also flags? Here we have come up against a deep Postmodernist puzzle. If a flag is a symbol...
With the Fourth of July at hand, House members overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to protect the American flag from burning and other forms of desecration. "As tombstones are not for toppling, as churches and synagogues and places of worship are not for vandalizing, flags are not for burning," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) The 312-120 vote -- which included support from 219 Republicans and 93 Democrats -- easily surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to alter the Constitution. TIME's Laurence Barrett says the bill has a "very good chance" of clearing the required 38 state...
After a battle with badly overmatched local police in which at least 20 officers were killed, the invaders occupied the Budyonnovsk town hall for almost two hours and hoisted the green, white and red Chechen flag in a mocking show of victory. Then the raiding party torched houses, set cars aflame, randomly sprayed passersby with bullets and pulled passengers off buses. Finally they retreated to the city hospital, taking hundreds of civilian hostages as a shield against hastily dispatched Russian special forces. The raiders "drove over people; they shot peaceful civilians in cold blood," reported Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeni Abramov...
...American Way; from AIDS; in Washington. Kropp went to work for TV producer Norman Lear's organization -- a direct response to Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority -- in 1984. PAW's ranks swelled to 300,000 during Kropp's tenure as it weighed in against Robert Bork and the "flag-burning amendment"-and for gay rights and free speech...