Word: reed
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...four of the structures are included on the National Register of Historic Places. The earliest--the Joseph Reed House--dates from about 1780, while Farwell's store, at the main intersection, was built in 1792. The four separate, three-story structures were connected behind a single store front in 1896, Charles Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission told the Boston Globe...
...think it would be a simple matter to draft a constitutional amendment prohibiting the burning of flags. Flags and fire: two fairly straightforward concepts. And everything was going smoothly with the House Judiciary Committee's deliberations earlier this month until one of the amendment's supporters, Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, whipped out a Bloomingdale's catalog showing Tommy Hilfiger men's briefs in flag motifs. The ensuing discussion raised profound issues, which deserve our full attention as the amendment proceeds to the floor of the House and thence to the states. Take the question, for example, of whether...
...citizen may feel entitled to ask how much of our Congress member's time is devoted to the close study of underwear ads. But Reed was trying to make a serious point: that it's not easy to define the word flag. If the members of the committee got out more often, they would know that some of the most patriotic buns and bosoms on our beaches come wrapped in Old Glory or tiny fragments thereof. Are these bits of fabric also flags? Here we have come up against a deep Postmodernist puzzle. If a flag is a symbol...
...York Democrat, objected that desecration has religious overtones. Someone may think Congress was trying to sneak by the First amendment and establish a religion-a religion centered on the worship of flags or, depending on how the definition works out, bikinis and underwear. Accordingly, the quick-thinking Reed proposed substituting for desecration the words burning, trampling or rending. Alas, Representative Charles Canady, a Florida Republican, objected that this wording would not "prohibit placing garbage or other offensive substances on the flag." Some residue of good taste prevented the legislators from going on to enumerate all the ways an object...
...solution, advocated by Canady, is to let the states define flag and desecration. But this leads to the problem foreseen by Reed: that a man innocently wearing flag-motif briefs may cross a state line only to find himself hoisted up the nearest flagpole and saluted by troops of Boy Scouts. Furthermore, with the rapid devolution of powers from the Federal Government to the states, a state may be tempted to define "the flag" as its own state flag. Since hardly anyone knows what the state flags look like, we would live in constant fear of desecrating one that resembles...