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This depiction of the alphabet as cultural symbol is also evident in Thomas More’s Utopia, for which Peter Giles created a simple and rational alphabet befitting of More’s rational kingdom...
...Jager told his men at the gates to "open them all." By dawn, an estimated 100,000 delirious East Germans had slipped past him on their way to a raucous celebration in West Berlin. Over the next few days, the revelers hammered away at the most notorious symbol of Soviet communist repression and toasted their newfound freedom with bottles of champagne. But joy was soon dampened by the daunting burden of rebuilding the backward East. More than a decade after Germany officially unified in 1990, the country is still suffering the hangover. --By Daniel Eisenberg
...Zedong inexplicably arrived an hour early at the red-lacquered Gate of Eternal Peace, entrance to the 500-year-old palace of China's emperors. He had chosen a symbol of ancient power in which to declare his new China. The man in charge of preparations, a loyal soldier named Guo Ying, 24, who had been fighting with the communists since he was 13, seated Mao in the former emperor's waiting room and fetched him a bowl of apples. There Guo learned that Mao, in his haste, had forgotten the ribbon that each new communist leader pins...
...much of the U.S. is concerned, Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York City for four months--from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he became a symbol of tough-minded resilience, to the end of his term. We in New York had a longer and more complicated relationship with him. Some loved the U.S. Attorney turned pol for presiding over a huge drop in crime; some hated him for taking a prosecutorial attitude toward everything from race relations to his personal life...
...little bit off message on whether the U.S. needs Saddam dead or alive. (Briefers here have repeatedly said "this isn?t about one man") He said, "The average Iraqi only knows Saddam. He's survived everything. He's won the lottery every time. He's a huge symbol for these people. He's everything. Unless we take him out, the population can't be confident...