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...loony things about the flag issue," added Buckwheat. "All three of them claim they want the Republican Party to appeal more to blacks and other minorities. But not one of them had the courage to say what Al Gore and Bill Bradley said, that the flag's an offensive symbol of white supremacy that ought to come down right away. If Republicans think more black folks are going to vote for them after this performance from their front runners, they're really STUPID...
...Harvard Crimson, to decide whether we will sabotage our own newspaper for one day, or whether we will let [The] Crimson's president's chair remain in Iceland as a symbol of peace and non-aggression between the United States and the nation of Iceland," the Lampoon wrote of the dilemma now facing Crimson staff...
...latest innovation, detailing the way new money forges its legacy. In an age when health-care advances deliver longer life spans, latter-day tycoons have become more concerned with how they'll be thought of once their working days are behind them. By contrast, Henry Ford, the symbol of innovation and entrepreneurship in the first half of the American Century, waited until his 70s to become charitable. Ford, accused of both racism and anti-unionism, was unable to improve his public image during his lifetime. It appears Gates doesn't want to go down the same road...
...federal judge will overrule the INS given that the boy's natural father, backed by both sets of grandparents, have demanded his return. "Cuban-American organizations will exhaust every last resort they have, including street protests, because they want to keep the boy here as an anti-Castro symbol," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Family concerns aren't a major consideration of the organizations involved. They've argued all along that the family he's with is less important than which country he's in, and they believe he's better off here...
...Square, which partied just hours after Boris Yeltsin handed a briefcase of nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin. Instead of the futurism that all these zeroes seem to command, the event was best celebrated by looking back, partially because futurism always comes off as incredibly stupid. So Seattle, Wash., a symbol for technology as well as troublemakers in sea-turtle costumes, canceled its main party, and no one really missed...