Word: symbolizations
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...bent on portraying Bush as the captive of his party's right wing--a divider, not a uniter. By the time Michigan voters were going to the polls last Tuesday, McCain had taken Bush's visit to Fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and turned it into a symbol of the entire race. Bush, whose brother Jeb converted to Roman Catholicism, was forced to stand up and deny that he was an anti-Catholic bigot...
Connoisseurs of New York politics love this stuff. "McCain's trying to make Bob Jones a symbol of Bush the way Louis Farrakhan was a symbol of Jesse Jackson," says Professor Mitchell Moss, director of the Taub Urban Research Center at New York University. Actually, McCain wants to make Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam hothead, a symbol of Bush as well. In a Fox News interview, Bush was asked if he regarded the Nation of Islam as a "faith-based institution." "I think it is," he replied. "I think it's based upon some universal principles." Since Farrakhan has called...
...title symbol of Chang's memoir, however, is that of the 'narrow gate' which marked the entrance to her mother's high school, the First Girls School, or Bei-yi-nu, in Taiwan...
Stanford's Mayfield program--which has consistently drawn national media attention as a symbol of student entrepreneurship--has paired a select group of students with mentors at technology companies for the past five years...
...week, sent out 250,000 pieces of misleading mail about the candidate's position on the flag flying above the state capitol. Both McCain and Bush ducked the issue, but the flyer said, "Of the major candidates, only George Bush has refused to call the Confederate flag a racist symbol." In a bit of payback last Saturday, McCain's camp decided to send copies of the flyer to African-Americans throughout Michigan. "We'll see if Bush can run as a Dixiecrat in Michigan and everywhere else," says McCain political director John Weaver...