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  • The flag that refuses to go away

    05/08/2006 3:32:42 PM PDT · by Cannoneer No. 4 · 30 replies · 819+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | May 8, 2006 | James Carroll
    THE SAD BLACK flag flies today from the tallest pole at Fenway Park. It flies atop municipal buildings, legion halls, and police stations in every city and town. Fire trucks carry it on antennae, and it waves from highway overpasses. The silhouetted profile of a beleaguered man droops before a prison tower and a string of barbed wire. Inscribed above are ''POW-MIA," and below, ''You are not forgotten." One would like to think the POW-MIA flag had transcended the reactionary uses to which it was put by a political fringe that abused the memory of lost heroes to raise money...
  • Steve Blow: Bush library – it's not exactly academic

    03/26/2006 8:13:59 AM PST · by altura · 61 replies · 1,511+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | March 26, 2006 | Steve Blow
    Heaven help me, with all the talk about the George W. Bush Presidential Library, a question keeps coming to mind: What's it going to have? Coloring books? Now, don't get all defensive on me. We can tease because he's one of us, right? And you have to admit: There's something ironic about building a library for a guy who has never been in one. Oh, maybe not "never." He did marry a librarian. There may have been some "research" in the stacks back in the day. Go ahead, add the rim shot. Yet here in Dallas and down in Waco,...