Word: symbolized
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...khakis, he manages to simultaneously exude American preppiness and interpret his current home at a polite distance. Meanwhile, his Currier House single is full of Islamic and Sudanese artifacts from home and family. He pauses briefly to point at cane with an emblem of an eagle, the Sudanese national symbol...
Associate Professor of Government Samuel J.Popkin (left) becomes a symbol for academicfreedom in November, 1972. Subpoenaed to testifybefore a Boston grand jury in the case of DanielEllsberg '52, Popkin refuses to answer the jury'squestions. To speak before the grand jury wouldhave compromised his sources and his future inacademia, Popkin says in a defense rejected by theSupreme Court...
Removing the "college" tagline from Radcliffe's name would put an end to the schizophrenic system of admitting female undergraduates to both Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and having Radcliffe collect tuition dollars then immediately transferred to Harvard. The current system, confusing and time-wasting, is a symbol of all that is wrong with the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. Undergraduates deserve a clearly-defined identity as students of Harvard College, and Radcliffe deserves to be more than just a vestigial gateway for female students...
...even as just over 71% of the citizens of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland voted to endorse a peace agreement that offers the best hope ever of ending the sectarian warfare in the North, Londonderry stands as the symbol of what went wrong in the British province, of what could go right in the wake of the positive vote, and of the difficulties ahead...
...largest in Europe, is the centerpiece of Expo '98, a world's fair dedicated to "The Oceans" and timed to celebrate Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos, especially those created by Peter Chermayeff of the Massachusetts-based architecture firm Cambridge Seven, the Columbus and Da Gama of aquarium design...