Word: symbolics
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...lopsided contribution to the E.U. budget. Voters of all stripes just wanted to give their unpopular governments a kicking. Their main gripes include persistent high unemployment and low growth in much of Europe. That stagnation fuels a fear of the future, of which the E.U. has become a major symbol...
...symbol of another kind for the former Soviet-bloc countries, which undertook painful reforms as the price of their admission last year. If the E.U. can't even agree on its own constitution, that may hurt pro-Western forces in countries still wanting to join, like Turkey and Ukraine. The resulting instability could hurt American interests too. --By J.F.O. McAllister
...Shared Confucian values are most obvious in the many paintings of the "four noble plants": plum blossoms, which flower before the snows melt, symbolize the hope of spring; chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness is celebrated in an exquisite silk hanging scroll, Bamboo Blowing in the Wind by Yi Chong (1541-1626), a royal prince who is considered the greatest Korean painter of bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect...
...TOOK OFFICE. VINCENT CHENG, 56, the first ethnic Chinese Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Asia-Pacific arm of HSBC Group, the world's second-largest bank by assets and a symbol of British colonial power; after being named to the position last December; in Hong Kong. Cheng, who grew up in a working-class tenement and suffered from polio as a child, embraced social activism in the early 1970s (he was once arrested while protesting the demolition of a squatter camp) before joining the bank in 1978 and rising rapidly through the ranks. On reporting...
Goldin offers three possible explanations for her findings: peer pressure among professional women to keep their names may have lessened, surname keeping is no longer seen as a symbol of support for women's equality, and the change may reflect a general shift toward more conservative social values...