Word: symbolic
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After last Monday's game, Ryan received a congratulatory call from the team owner's dad. No big deal -- except that the owner's dad is George Bush. "It's a great symbol," Bush, 66, later said, "for kids around this country that love baseball as much as I do." Forget the kids, Mr. President. Nolan Ryan's never ending glory is inspiration for the geezers, for those folks of a certain age whose hairlines are ebbing (like Ryan's, bless him) while their waistlines spread. When the pitcher appears on TV in an Advil commercial and drawls, "Ah feel...
There is no way to avoid hard choices. The U.S. will have to recognize that no society can have it all at all times -- unfettered harvesting of natural resources, full employment and a healthy and rich environment. The soft hoot of the owl, an ancient symbol of wisdom and foresight, beckons us to resolve both its future...
...stood in front of the White House, he noted that any Democrat's opposition to the amendment "would make a good 30-second spot." In an unusual interjection in his dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens had taken a shot at such cynicism: "The integrity of the symbol has been compromised by those leaders who . . . seem to manipulate the symbol of national purpose into a pretext for partisan disputes about meaner ends...
...Mandela is not traveling as a symbol. "It's a political visit," stresses Lindiwe Mabuza, the A.N.C.'s chief representative in Washington. Mandela is seeking two things: first, reassurance that economic sanctions will not be lifted until South Africa is headed toward a peaceful political solution, and second, pledges of funds to rebuild the A.N.C. in South Africa. The organization was legalized only four months ago after almost 30 years of outlaw status. Mandela's message in Washington, says Mabuza, will be, "Why turn off the heat when the water is about to boil...
...this case neither doctor nor patient works very well as a symbol for the euthanasia debate. Adkins, a 54-year-old Portland schoolteacher, was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's. A strong, lively woman who loved hang gliding and mountain climbing and playing her flute, she was not yet very sick; the week before her suicide she beat her 32-year-old son in a tennis match. It was more her dread than her disease that drove her to seek Kevorkian's help. Even before her illness she had joined the Hemlock Society, a group that supports terminally...