Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were raised. Asked for comment, Brokaw remarked that he didn't "want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding practiced. "Whenever there is the first hint of a counterclockwise symbol on a weather map that a hurricane might hit land," Brokaw added, "Mr. Hard News is down there wrapped around a lamppost...
...were offended by the gold-bullion Nazi symbol on your cover. Your choice of this symbol rather than the Star of David was inappropriate and used for sensationalistic purposes. CHERYL and ANDY KAPLAN Gainesville, Florida...
...asked the National Academy of Sciences to file a report on the extent of brucellosis infection, the chances for developing a vaccine program and the nature of disease transmission between buffalo and cattle. "The continued pointless killings by the state of Montana are threatening the future of this magnificent symbol of our nation's commitment to conservation," he said. Nonsense, countered Montana Governor Marc Racicot, who last week termed Babbit's utterances on buffalo "rhetorical posturing." Montana is already plagued by a booming Yellowstone bison herd that should be reduced to no more than 2,000 heads, he said...
...taken out of the palace at night along with the suddenly quiescent leader. The Quito daily newspaper Hoy has reported that along with the money, a historical gold pen is missing from the president's desk. Gone, too, is the ebony-and-gold staff that is Ecuador's symbol of presidential power. Palace police guard Miguel Lara has told investigators that he made the $3 million withdrawal in 11 billion sucres, the national currency, on Feb. 6, the day Bucaram was ousted from office. He says he delivered the money in bags to Bucaram's secretary Oscar Celleri, who remains...
...free debate. Free speech, dialogue, and interchange in the "marketplace of ideas" are the very foundation of the liberal canon. What would John Stuart Mill have said? (My personal message to the not-so-intellectual hate-mailers, politics aside, is to learn the subtle difference between the ancient Buddhist symbol which they drew and the swastika which they tried to draw...