Word: rite
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...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July, Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day in 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with overtones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear. In the tug of war for the nation's will and soul, the flag has somehow become the symbolic rope... Some, mostly the defiant young, blow...
...federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pa., indicted three former Rite Aid executives on fraud charges...
...night Stride Rite presented the senior recognition awards, another four seniors were presented with post-graduate fellowships to take part in service projects related to their work at Harvard...
Dominguez, who will be on the committee choosing the Stride Rite awards for the class of 2003, wants to face the same dilemma they dealt with this year...
This summer he will be going to northern Pakistan on a Stride Rite fellowship, where he will be working in “medical informatics,” doing disease mapping and technology work—using the Internet to allow rural doctors to stay in contact with big-city hospitals...