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...achievements as a great athlete, a media figure and a political symbol paved the way to his being selected to light the Olympic torch in 1996 in Atlanta. He had revealed over and over that he had the discipline, courage and elegance vast enough to prove him right when he screamed, "I'm the greatest...
...have a letter of authorization?" he asks, keeping his finger on the trigger guard of his rifle. Although they muster only an antiquated shotgun and a homemade rifle among them, he hangs back from the villagers manning the makeshift wooden hut from which the black flag displaying Laskar's symbol of crossed scimitars droops in the afternoon heat...
...word: sex. A recent rerelease by Taiwan Colors Music of the 1986 11-song dpp compilation Oh! Formosa packages Chen the sex symbol rather than Chen the A-student. The handsome, well-coiffed A Bian?make that Ahhhhh!-Bian?is posed on the cover, emanating halos of mojo, windbreaker coolly unzipped, hands hitched smugly in his low-slung slacks. As he warbles Lover's Pillow in his adenoidal tenor to Casio keyboard accompaniment, it all begins to make sense. The Taiwanese people must have known that inside the mild-mannered technocrat was a musky he-man who?and please...
...wishes to argue that the Christmas tree is an exclusivist Christian symbol because the Church or a large number of the Church’s followers have associated it with a Christian festival—regardless of history or the masses of proclaimed non-Christians who exchange presents and have a tree on Dec. 25—there should also be protests against any Halloween parties (which even the name will tell you has been associated by the church with the subsequent All Saints’ Day). Similarly, the Star of David or the menorah seen in many houses...
...past or original intent of a symbol is sufficient, then the gaily decorated tree is “exclusive” of all non-Pagans, as it comes from a pre-Christian Roman tradition (the Romans used green trees lit with candles in their winter Saturnalia festival). The simple fact that many of the stricter Christian sects ban Christmas trees (and Halloween and any other non-Christian assimilation) should be enough to prove this point. Most of the other things associated with Christmas can be traced to 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia—the yule log, carolers...