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...Right now our factories look like Betsy Ross's flag shop," says Howard Beige, executive vice president of Rubie's Costume, a Queens, N.Y., company, which supplies such giant retailers as K Mart, Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us. Rubie's had expected kids to demand Harry Potter and SpongeBob Squarepants. But a week after the attacks, the company stocked up on red, white and blue material and set its 1,500 seamstresses working overtime to fashion fire-fighter and soldier costumes for the boys and USA Teen Cheerleader outfits for their sisters...
...navigate. Says Jerry Carbone, Tropic-Aero's president: "It's so simple to use, you and your wife would be able to find your way in a 767 once it's up. It's sad if [the hijackers] were able to use something anyone can get at K Mart...
...behavior can attest, this is no time to worry about inflation. And when a president with 90-percent approval ratings puts on a green eyeshade and tells unemployed people to all go get jobs at Wal-mart, those approval ratings...
While Wal-Mart may be selling out of cute little American flags, a $40 billion appropriations bill was rushed through Congress with little objection, and the Justice Department has arrested scores of people in one of the most extensive investigation in FBI history—some for minor traffic violations. Yet even some of the most trenchant of Bush’s opponents announced that they “stand behind the president.” In the week following the attacks, Congress seemed ready to rubber stamp anything the president asked them to, no matter how costly or ridiculous...
...three items bought at Wal-Mart following Tuesday was the American flag. Nationwide, American flags have, among other things, become symbols of solidarity, defiance, rememberance. We must hope that they will not turn into symbols of repression and destruction for the millions of Muslim and Arab Americans, many of whom are purchasing and proudly displaying those flags. The Koran reads Assalam AlaykumMay peace be upon you. May it be upon...