Word: symbolic
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...Confederate flag was the battle flag for a revolt against the Constitution in the name of slavery. To present it, as Bridget Kerrigan '91 does, as a symbol of "Southern honor and grace and dignity," is perverse. To pretend that those who oppose the display of the Confederate flag are merely displaying a regional bias against Southerners is equally perverse...
Ending all ties would be a symbol of Harvard's stand against discrimination. Symbols are fine--they are often very powerful. But a symbol must obey the dictum "do no harm." Cutting all ties would do much harm...
...Gaza City. Down the road sits the Palestinian village of al-Mograka, whose residents chafe at the restrictions that Netzarim's presence imposes on them. "People will never accept the settlement here," says Nasr Azzam, who runs the local general store. "It is a strange body and a symbol of the occupation...
...meet Kizilyurek, a boyhood friend who is now an editor of Turkish Cypriot literature and a political scientist associated with the University of Bremen. During his meeting with Chrysanthou Kizilyurek relates the difficulties that he encountered when customs officials discovered he carried three passports. The anecdote is a great symbol for the problematic nature of Cypriot identity...
...People will tell you that the flag means a lot of different things," he said in February 1991. "It stands for white supremacy and it stands for Slavery. It is a symbol of the white South...