Word: symbolic
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...competing. But five states -- Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan -- will participate jointly at the Winter Games. Members of the so-called Unified Team wear the traditional red-white-and-light-gray uniforms of the former Soviet Union, but will be allowed to display the name, flag or symbol of their state on the sleeve...
Just as in the Middle Ages, the larger society's misgivings about the flesh are specifically projected onto women. By making one group the symbol for the flesh, people can conduct a war against it as if it were an external enemy, not an inseparable part of themselves...
...second paradigm, then, is reflected by Brigid Kerrigan and the BSA. It stands for divisiveness, separatism and insensitivity. The Confederate flag is its symbol, and Leonard Jeffries its prophet...
Last year, a Confederate flag appeared in a Harvard dorm window. To some, the flag represented Southern pride. To others, it was a hateful symbol of Black slavery. BSA protested the hanging of the flag and even called for its removal. Now, the same group has invited Leonard jeffries, a man whose views to some represent Black pride and to others hateful bigotry. Consistent standards would dictate BSA's condemnation of Jeffries' appearance. Instead, they have hypocritically invited...
...occupied territories goes beyond political abstraction: it is an issue that cuts to the very dignity and survival of both Arabs and Jews. For them, the looming battle between Jerusalem and Washington over $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel to help settle Soviet Jewish immigrants is a symbol not only of where the Bush Administration's sympathies lie but also of what the occupied territories' future is likely...