Word: posterity
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...controversial decision to host Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as an honored guest at France's Bastille Day celebration on July 14. Sarkozy had campaigned for the presidency on a promise of a move toward human-rights centered foreign policy, and the Syrian leader is hardly a poster boy for the liberty France celebrates on its national day. Indeed, Chirac, hardly an acolyte of the Bush Administration, had been every bit as vehement as Washington on the need to punish Syria over its alleged involvement in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri. Chirac boycotted this year...
...Winter Olympics have cashed in on the action-sports craze captivating the young demo. With interest sparked by ESPN's surprisingly popular X-Games, snowboarders and freestyle skiers have snatched medals and, more important, ratings points. How mainstream have action sports become? Snowboarder Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White, poster boy of the '06 Torino Games, is now a pitchman for American Express...
Ever since Luis Posada Carriles was smuggled into the U.S. three years ago, he's become an international poster boy for double standards in the war on terror. But a federal appeals court may now prompt the Bush Administration to follow its own post-9/11 principles...
...chicly dressed, she looks more like the girl whom you'd want to impress in seminar than a menace to society. But after staging a defiant protest when the Olympic torch passed through Hong Kong in May, the 21-year-old university student became Hong Kong's activist poster child. She also became the bête-noire of many who see her as a photogenic traitor to the Chinese people. Chan brushes aside the criticism as a symptom of Hong Kong's political apathy. "People here just feel helpless. They don't believe they can make a difference...
WASHINGTON — A small group of kids curiously approach a poster of maimed infants entitled, “Children of the Gulf War.” Donning a large black wig and a "Bush Lies" pin, a small, elderly woman holds the poster while dutifully standing outside the White House in front of her makeshift shelter. The poster-bearer looks at the children and slowly says, “President Bush…bombs the children. He. Bombs. Them...