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...parents made their first showing at the Tuesday meeting in the Sullivan Chamber in City Hall. Crowds of parents filled the room, donning OLA nametags and matching red carnations—the symbol of the Carnation Revolution in 1974, a coup that brought democracy to Portugal...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bilingual Immersion Program Avoids Budget Cuts | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...rice-paddy view is something of a status symbol in Bali's trendy Seminyak restaurant row, where a high level of Western cookery competes for tourist dollars. The six-month-old Sardine takes the experience one better: you can watch stalks growing under the stars while seated in a bamboo pavilion with massive thatched eaves handcrafted by artisans from an up-country village. It's Trader Vic's, only updated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pack Them In at Sardine Restaurant | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...proposed $47.5 billion bond issue the government is asking taxpayers to approve to provide stimulus investment for businesses and infrastructure have fallen afoul of feminists. The posters show Marianne - the Phrygian-bonneted symbol of the French Republic - barefoot, swathed in pure white and very pregnant. That, critics say, sends the chauvinist message of women as chaste, stay-at-home types whose sole function in life is to provide their husbands with children needed for labor and warring. Some detractors say the images also exploit women for political purposes. "The hand of the state shouldn't be in my uterus," wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France, Sex Sells — Even in Anti-Smoking Ads | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...imperialism) and to technologies (U.S. Stinger missiles, in the case of the Afghan war), those sentiments became strong enough to defeat the Soviet forces and send the Shah into exile. Importing foreign ideologies or language can create bitter historical ironies. The nuclear program that the Shah championed as a symbol of his Westernization and modernization is now, in the hands of the Ahmadinejad regime, a symbol of precisely the opposite sentiment: defiance against the West. Ever since the Taraki government changed Afghanistan's official title to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, many Afghans have been skittish about the term democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: A Time to Remember | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...think OIP was a symbol that [the previous] attitudes and policies were changing,” Coatsworth said...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: OIP, OCS Merger Reflects Changing Attitudes on Study Abroad | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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