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...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.

Sunday games in the 2006 FIFA World Cup will kick off at 9 a.m. ET (ABC) in Nuremburg with a meeting between the only two winless teams in Group F, Japan and Croatia. They will face each other knowing that a defeat will put an end to their World Cup adventures. In their opening match against Australia, the Japanese could not maintain a 1-0 lead and they were scored on three times in the last 15 minutes. Croatia's debut was not any better, as Brazil's Kaka scored to give the South Americans a 1-0 win over the Europeans. In Sunday's...

Tarot card report angers police in sniper manhunt Officials unsure if latest slaying at gas station is related to other killings 10/10/2002 Associated Press As police investigated another fatal shooting in the Washington area Wednesday night, investigators assailed media reports about a note that a sniper apparently left for police, saying the disclosure may have jeopardized their chance to communicate with the man terrorizing the region. Police sources who have read a tarot "death" card left by the assailant after he shot a 13-year-old boy Monday outside a Bowie, Md., school, said Wednesday that in addition to an apparent...