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...carriers to the domestic market because their arrival will assure a high level of competition. The challenge for the government in all this is to make sure that every time it opens another door to a foreign carrier, some equal opportunity is created overseas for one of America's flag carriers...
...Hitler, and he waged World War II against him, recapturing the exhilaration (and the values) of his heroic bomber-pilot days. The Patriot missile was celebrated as if it were the product of some modern Los Alamos. Bush visited the factory for a rally that resembled his trips to flag factories in the 1988 campaign. The Allies were invoked as they had been against the Axis. When victory came in Kuwait, Bush presumed that V-K day would rank with V-E day and V-J day, that America's international eminence was restored as at the peak...
Right, okay, put a check in the togetherness column...but what about sanity? What about some semblance of order? I mean, there I was, a lame excuse for an American flag (you know you're in a liberal bastion when wearing red, white and blue provokes the refrain, "Republican, right?") wandering through a packed Adams dining hall. Walking by the platform (a moon is dancing with Madonna's book (the dress is Mylar and she wears a $49.95 price tag. The music is pounding. There's a cage...and more costumes: a woman dressed as spider-woman, a guy dressed...
While the American flag flew above Oriel College, where Clinton studies as a Rhodes Scholar, American students crowded around television sets at parties throughout Oxford awaiting exact poll returns...
...patriotic bunches of red, white, and blue balloons and the giant U.S. flag backdrop failed to disguise the grim mood of President Bush's local supporters at a GOP party last night...