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...grimmest prison tales gain their friends' admiration; those with the most relatives killed in the Iran-Iraq war get better marks at school. Satrapi's darkest passages are leavened with wry humor. A teenage Marjane is stopped by the religious police for wearing a Michael Jackson button, a symbol of American imperialists. She tries to convince them it's a Malcolm X pin and that she supports America's oppressed minorities. "Back then, Michael Jackson was still black," she notes. By deflecting moments of abject fear with humor, Satrapi proves the best way to exorcise tyranny may be to laugh...
...UNVEILED. "DANCING BEIJING," the 2008 Beijing Olympics symbol, which is an anthropomorphic Chinese character jing, in midstride; in Beijing...
Datelines are a longstanding symbol of journalism, on par with headlines and bylines. Former New York Times correspondent Rick Bragg said in an interview that his job as a reporter was to “go get the dateline.” The New York Times’ higher-ups did not agree entirely with Bragg, but the reporter’s comment nonetheless underscores the important position that the dateline holds in many journalists’ lives...
...When you pick up a newspaper and begin to read a story with a dateline, think for a couple of seconds about the people like me who get excited by having earned a dateline. Consider what efforts went into getting the dateline. Don’t overlook this journalistic symbol entirely...
...arrive. The force, which West African states say will finally start deploying this week, should help with peace efforts and allow in desperately needed food and medical supplies. But even as news of their arrival spread, Liberians asked, what took you so long? ECOMOG was meant to be the symbol of a new era. The intervention force, drawn from the armies of 15 West African nations, was first deployed in 1990 after the outbreak of civil war in Liberia. Since then, it has helped quell unrest in Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast. Washington points...