Word: symbolic
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Selig is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with baseball. He's a hypocrite of the first order, extolling the virtues of baseball's tradition while negotiating a plan to undo its sacred playoff system...
...United Daughters of the Confederacy had had their way with the Senate in the past. Four times this century the Senate had renewed the patent on their insignia, which includes the seven-starred Confederate flag -- an emotional symbol that continues to divide blacks and whites in the South. But in May the Judiciary Committee decided against renewal. And when Senator Jesse Helms, a proud son of the South, sneaked it in as part of a larger bill, he learned that he wasn't the only one who felt passionately about the Civil...
...Senate, Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, had amassed a spotty record in her first seven months. But she took command of the Senate floor last week as she demanded that the legislators reconsider their approval of the patent. "This vote is about race. It is about racial symbols, the racial past, and the single most painful episode in American history." Her voice shaking, she declared, "It is absolutely unacceptable to me and to millions of Americans, black or white, that we would put the imprimatur of the United States Senate on a symbol of this kind of idea." The Senate...
...much for the fantasy. We waded ashore in Somalia to feed the hungry. Now our gunships hover over Mogadishu shooting rockets into crowded villas. Blue- helmeted U.N. troops, once a symbol of ineffectiveness but at least innocuousness, now fire into a crowd of demonstrators. At least 20 women and children die. The Security Council stoutly defends the massacre...
Charles Keating Jr., whose greed and recklessness made him an apt symbol of the savings and loan calamity, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison for draining the Irvine, California-based Lincoln Savings, a swindle that cost taxpayers $2.6 billion. The sentence will run concurrently with a 10-year state prison sentence that Keating, 69, is serving...