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...preserve the integrity of their political system. The British get their jollies watching royal weddings and royal divorces while they elect colorless but thoughtful politicians like Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Lacking a similar means of letting off symbolic steam, we have to elect movie actors and flag-factory denizens...
Wojcik, who take most Crimson corner kicks, was concerned about the blustery conditions on Ohiri Field. Specifically, the corner flag's flapping must have distracted him, because the Westfield, N.J. native asked a nearby ballboy--wearing an ever-so-large Harvard jersey--to hold the recalcitrant flag off to the side...
...Sinead O'Connor does not wave the American flag, that's her prerogative. She hails from Ireland and has no reason to particularly adore the Stars and Stripes. In fact, she left L.A. and moved back to London because she felt "there isn't any American culture." But this year's shenanigans have no justification. To point to a leader who symbolizes the Catholic Church and the values which it embodies and brand him the culprit of unfortunate social ills makes no sense. Insulting a religious group to make a political statement shows poor taste and amounts to little more...
...interrupted by a mushroom-shaped cloud). Even the biting sarcasm that characterized the '88 campaign is largely missing: Bush's ironic use of clips showing Michael Dukakis taking a tank ride, or Dukakis' satiric depiction of Bush media advisers cynically discussing how to package their candidate ("Get out the flag, boys...
...advisers, deterred by Dornan's loose- cannon reputation and lack of proof, at first shied away from the allegations. But Bush just "wouldn't let go," says a top adviser, adding that the charges played on the President's aversion to anything he considers unpatriotic -- "like the flag-burning thing...