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...Joan of Arc languished in margins of French history before she was revived as a nationalist symbol in the late 19th Century. Having been called by God to expel the invading English from France during the Hundred Years War, as the story goes, the teenage saint was later appropriated as a symbol of the disputed province of Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1. The discovery of the false relics would also have added weight to the public campaign to canonize St. Joan, launched in 1869 by the Bishop of Orl?ans. As for the unlikely materials used...
Like residents of Berlin during the airlift, inhabitants of Erbil-the capital of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq-get a little flutter in their hearts when they see planes coming in to land. Built after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Erbil's international airport is a symbol to Kurds that their years of isolation as an oppressed ethnic minority are over, and that the Kurdish region, unlike the rest of Iraq, is open for business. Passengers flying into Baghdad have to endure a corkscrew landing to avoid possible surface-to-air-missiles. But a trip to Erbil...
...World War I specifications. The Hamreen mountains to the right are practically deserted save for a series of sentry posts silhouetted along the ridgeline. And waiting straight ahead at the gates of Kirkuk is a natural-gas flare, an eternal flame that the locals call Babagurgur-which is the symbol of this oil-rich city...
Having established himself as one of the greatest chess masters of all time, Kasparov is an underdog again. As a leader of the Other Russia, a coalition of opponents to the government of Vladimir Putin, Kasparov has become Russia's most conspicuous political gadfly--a symbol of the sense that as the world prepares for the end of the Putin period (presidential elections are due to be held in March 2008, and under the Russian constitution, Putin cannot stand for a third term), all is not well in Russia. The Other Russia has been holding a series of protest marches...
...into a low-income urban community where it could practice what the President preached about the Federal Government's helping sacred places serve civic purposes in ways that respect constitutional principles and produce measurable results. The Bush Administration should consider relocating my former office to New Orleans. In both symbol and in substance, that would be a real faith-based initiative...