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After Monday’s vote, Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe—an international symbol of corruption—will join this litany of human rights abusers on the commission. Although he has rigged elections, brutalized opponents and condoned murderous attacks on his country’s white farmers, Mugabe will now have his views of morality and justice represented...
...Forman’s daughter is part of the group as well, dressing up in colonial garb and running onto the field to tend to the dead each year. “Amongst kids of a certain age group, it seems to be something of a status symbol in this area to be involved with the Minute Men,” says Forman. “She’s gone to school in her clothes. It’s very different from when I was a kid and that kind of thing would not be considered so cool...
...Symbol of Britain
...Italian Workers' Statute, which forces companies to rehire unjustly fired workers rather than simply pay out monetary damages. Though it generates only a sprinkling of cases each year, Article 18 has become an all-or-nothing battle cry for both camps, which see it as the symbol of Italy's famously airtight job protections. Antonio D'Amato, head of Confindustria, Italy's leading employers' association, says unions are waging an "ideological campaign" rather than facing real negotiations. "We have never asked for the freedom to fire, but instead the freedom to hire," he says. So far at least, labor...
Instead, Brands has capitalized on his study of Ben Franklin, whose exploits are well beaten into the heads of most third graders. Franklin is an American cliché, the symbol of the self-made man with a broad array of talents: inventor (of the Franklin stove, bifocals), writer (of Poor Richard’s Almanac and editor of the Declaration of Independence), businessman (printer) and politician (beginning as colonial envoy to Britain followed by a lengthy stint as the elder member of the Constitutional Convention...