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Meanwhile, in New Orleans, another hurricane season is approaching, and the Army Corps of Engineers has announced that flood-control measures are still far from complete. Residents tried to enjoy the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival, symbol of the city's spirit, an event rescued from near death by a grant from Shell Oil. Too few tickets have been selling because broad stretches of the city remain desolate and depopulated...
...many of those campaigning to save the Pier, it is a symbol of something lost. "The British took away a lot of from us, but they knew how to leave space for people," says Mary Ann King, a district counselor for the neighborhood of Wan Chai. "You'd think to yourself, at least I have freedom, if I don't have democracy...
...Representatives of big business at the gathering included executives from General Mills, Qwest and, most notably Wal-Mart, which has become for some a symbol of the failure of American corporations to provide robust and affordable insurance to its employees. Major companies in the United States employ many of the nation's more than 40 million uninsured. There for big labor was Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, a long-time champion of health care reform who has been criticized by some on the left for working in coalition with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott...
...these cases the symbol is the sin: Congressman Mark Foley was the Capitol Crusader against pedophilia before his own leering e-mails surfaced; virtuecrat Bill Bennett's gambling habit started with church bingo; Al Gore just got permission to install solar panels on his house, which has been reported to use 20 times the energy of an average-size home...
...cloth patches pinned to their shirts displaying the question, “Ask me why I’m fasting.” Another student held a large sign that read, “Security Starts With Justice.” Other students held empty paper plates as a symbol of their actions...