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...actions and accomplishments, not our rhetoric - and certainly not our jewelry - that define us as patriots. The flag pin on your cover has been a lightning rod for controversy during the presidential campaign, but it is not a litmus test for patriotism. Francis Scott Key wrote of the Stars and Stripes waving "o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave," not o'er the Brooks Brothers lapel. Tracy Leverton, Vienna...
Peter Norman was the other guy in one of the most famous images of the 20th century. As The Star-Spangled Banner rang out during presentations for the 200-m sprint at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the Australian silver medalist gazed at the flag rising in his honor. Behind him, history was being made. Tommie Smith and John Carlos used the occasion to protest their country's treatment of African Americans, each raising a gloved fist in the Black Power salute, a gesture of solidarity and defiance. Bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee, U.S. authorities sent...
...addition to his penchant for making disparaging remarks about immigrants and southern Italians, Bossi, 66, has targeted national symbols. In 1997 he declared that the Italian tricolore flag was best used as toilet paper. The Northern League repeatedly aims its ire at the government bureaucracy in Rome and at the underdeveloped regions in Italy's south, which it says are siphoning off tax dollars with public subsidies. While Bossi was ranting on Sunday against southern teachers being sent to work in northern schools, he cited the national anthem, whose words were written in 1847 by Goffredo Mameli to encourage...
...attire of their country's national team. Competitors from other nations represented at the game's Francophone World Championships are wearing casual shorts and T-shirts appropriate to the steamy heat of the West African summer; the men and women of the Senegalese team posing next to the national flag are decked out in sportswear reminiscent of its World Cup soccer team - and they take their responsibilities every bit as seriously as do the soccer stars of the Teranga Lions...
...Nuoc Hotel, which offered the same amenities (dim corridors, rough toilet paper) that you get in what used to be called the Soviet bloc. The Vietnamese smiled charmingly throughout, and soon enough the boards arrived and the games commenced. There was something squirrelly about the event -- an American flag snapping above terrain that has been under a U.S. trade embargo since 1975 -- but then squirrelly is a feeling Vietnam gives you these days. Out yonder was a gunless gunboat, its Vietnamese colors set off against a red gob of sun. In the bar was flat, skunky-tasting beer that...