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...STEP DOWN Laceys Footwear trod on a few toes this summer with a sandal emblazoned on the insole with a reverse image of Hindu's most revered symbol, the Om. After selling just 282 pairs, the British company withdrew the offending beachwear and apologized. They should have known better: last year, American Eagle Outfitters had to scrap its Ganesh sandals for the same reason...
...join the rest of the big countries and win its first gold? (Answer: Day 7, when cyclist Chris Hoy won the men's 1-km track time trial.) Would the millionaires of the U.S. men's basketball team be eliminated? (No, but they would become, fairly or not, a symbol of American hubris.) Would Swedish drama queen/heptathlete Carolina Klüft score as highly in the seven elements of her event as she did with swooning the crowd? (Yes. She won gold.) But first, another Greek tragedy. Bronze-winning weight lifter Leonidas Sampanis, the country's first Athens medalist, tested...
...headquarters of Prudential Financial Inc. in Newark, N.J., would not seem like an obvious target for terrorists. It is neither a venerated symbol of American capitalism like the New York Stock Exchange building nor an iconic piece of modern architecture like the Citigroup building in midtown Manhattan, which houses America's biggest bank. It looms over a city that was once the very symbol of urban blight in America. On a clear day the more famous spires of Manhattan are visible from Newark, and so too is the empty space in the skyline on the island's southern tip, where...
...Phil Johnson, part of the romance attaches to his Harley itself, with its gleaming chrome and iconic status. Johnson sees the bike as a symbol of freedom and "American technology frozen in time...
...look a little closer: Don’t those names—Seymour Benjamins, Mo Bludfer-Oyle, Mona Polist—sound a bit off? Isn’t there the hint of a grin beneath their solidly plutocratic exteriors? And was that check a symbol...