Word: flags
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...word “routine” is a red flag in any long-term commitment. It comes with connotations of habit, boredom, and monotony. So over their 38-show run for this year’s musical “Acropolis Now,” members of Hasty Pudding Theatricals were challenged to keep up the energy night after night. It takes creativity, but when you’re into drag, role-play, and four-inch-heel knee-high pink pleather boots, you definitely have an edge...
...Americans to suspicious houses, he said, they would kill him. The operation's leader, 1st Lieut. Glenn Burkey, exploded with frustration. U.S. forces had taken gunfire from the village several times, and previous house searches had turned up weapons, explosives and even a Taliban flag. Yet repeated raids risked alienating residents further. Burkey needed the elder's help. "You told us we had to do things differently," he said to Niazamuddin. "We are trying. I want the U.S. and Afghan forces to work together with the villagers to make this place safe." Niazamuddin was silent. "You remember Qadir?" he finally...
...Kurds now have a role model of their own. Kurdistan is still a taboo word in Turkey, but Turkish Kurds have watched with fascination the developments in neighboring Iraq over the past few years. Iraqi Kurds have built up a largely self-governing region with its own parliament and flag. For the first time in history, the Kurds - an ancient people spread out across Iran, Syria, Turkey and Iraq - have what looks like a state. "The emergence of Kurdistan has fostered a sense of self-confidence here," says Sezgin Tanrikulu, a prominent lawyer in Diyarbakir. "Not because people want independence...
...year-old charity worker pulling a solar-powered sound system on the back of his bicycle, came to warn G-20 leaders that "climate change [is] approaching a possible tipping point." Seventeen-year-old Max Warwick, decked out in Doc Marten boots and drainpipe jeans and holding an English flag emblazoned with "Gordon Is a Moron," just wanted his government "to do stuff for working-class families," he said, puffing on a neatly rolled cigarette. With tongue in cheek, Delores Forothers - think about it - was marching "to support all these bankers," she said in her best fake-posh accent. "Greed...
Madoff never used his asset-management money to trade securities, court documents show. Instead, he largely kept it in his Chase account for years. Though Chase bankers never raised a red flag, another arm of Chase did have suspicions about Madoff, and that raises questions. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...