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...Buenos Aires, Haig found the Argentines in a state of high excitement. His limousine moved slowly past upwards of 150,000 flag-waving onlookers as he drove to the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, to see President Galtieri. The Argentine leader subsequently told a cheering crowd: "If the British want to come, let them come. We will take them on." He added that Argentina would "inflict punishment" on anyone who "dares to touch one meter of Argentine territory." But the discussions between Haig and the Argentines continued until late that evening. It was after midnight when Haig announced unexpectedly that...
...storming of the Bastille? People will rise, and let me tell you, what disturbs me is that we've not had so far in all our demonstrations - and we've had massive demonstrations, tens of millions have come out on the streets - and not once have you seen the flag of a foreign country burned. But last week in a demonstration we saw an American flag burning. There is a whole mass of people that the West is alienating. You know there is a feeling that there is discrimination against Muslims by the West. Pakistanis look at Iraq and Palestine...
...something even greater—the right to be recognized as Boston’s greatest team. “It would be a huge momentum-builder,” MacDonald said. “At the start of every year, there are a few key accomplishments that we flag...I think that having the opportunity to play in the finals is great, but our goal wasn’t to play in the final game. Our goal was to win the championship.” “To tell you the truth,” he added...
Superheroes, jugglers, Miss Massachusetts, a South African flag, and loud, colorful gentlemen in drag ushered Charlize Theron through the Square yesterday in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ annual Woman of the Year parade. Sandwiched between two actors—a belly dancer and a yellow-coifed drag queen wearing insect antenna—the Oscar-winning actress shouted to the driver of the orange Bentley convertible in which she rode. “I did the ‘Italian Job,’” she said. “Do you want me to take over...
Fatima Zibouh, a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at the University of Liège in Belgium, says her hijab is "not a flag or a symbol, merely a manifestation of my spiritual life." A British teaching assistant, sacked for wearing the face-covering niqab, invoked not Shari'a or tradition but her concern for the rights of career women: the ruling, she said, made her "fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work...