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...something more menacing—peer pressure to conform? No, the kids at my high school sporting black, safety-pin-perforated clothing hadn’t been very clean, but they always had something interesting to say about civil liberties. In high schools like mine, clothing was meant to signal political views as well as social membership. And at high schools everywhere, clothing can also be a means of sparking debate; just this past week, Bretton Barber, a 16-year-old high school student in Dearborn Heights, Mich., was sent home for insisting on wearing a T-shirt that labeled...
...News (“The online information source for Westchester, Rockland and Putnum”) recently reported that a young woman from Mount St. Mary College wore a stars-and-stripes halter top to her school’s women’s basketball game against Manhattanville College to signal her support of our nation’s flag. She felt the star-spangled banner needed supporting because Toni Smith, a senior forward on the Manhattanville College team, has turned away from the flag during the national anthem at the beginning of basketball games this season to protest what...
...purpose of the President's speech outlining his war aims was, therefore, not simply an attempt to persuade the doubters. It was also a signal to the world that his mind is made up, and that reluctant allies everywhere had better move quickly to make their peace with a war that now looks inevitable...
...calls directed at the phone lines of the White House and selected members of congress. And, perhaps mindful that most callers wouldn't get as far as a "your call is important to us" message, a primary goal was to drown out the drumbeat of war with a busy signal...
...TIME.com's own informal survey revealed, if nothing else, very busy phone lines: Wednesday afternoon, getting through to the main White House switchboard proved impossible. Calls to the offices of New York senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton were also greeted with a busy signal. The Associated Press reports Sen. Richard Durbin's office received 800 calls in a four-hour span Wednesday, or about twice as many as usual...