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...invasion of Iraq. With all eyes on Baghdad and new war heroes like former POW Jessica Lynch, hardly anyone noticed that three Americans had gone missing in Colombia. Besides, when bad things happen to hired guns, it doesn't pack the same emotional punch of captured U.S. troops or flag-draped coffins. By the time they were rescued on July 2, 2008, Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes had endured more than five years in the Colombian jungle...
...Senate floor. And while his opposition may have as much to do with politics as law - Republicans are skittish about a slippery slope that would lead to U.S. Senators from D.C., a Democratic stronghold - the definition of a state is surprisingly hard to pin down. While the U.S. flag has only 50 stars, D.C. is considered a state in other legal references, such as the Constitution's provision that lets Congress regulate interstate commerce. (See 50 authentic American travel experiences...
...first serious challenge to the two-month-old government of Prime Minister Hasina, who was elected late last year in a landslide. She sent two emissaries - State Minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Mirza Azam, youth front leader of the Awami League - who entered the BDR headquarters with a white flag to signal that the government was willing to negotiate. After lengthy negotiations in her offices with a delegation of 14 mutineers, the Prime Minister declared amnesty for the BDR soldiers who mutinied if they agreed to lay down their weapons...
...subjugation even infiltrate the intimate spaces of Tibetan life. The streets outside Lhasa are lined with brand new houses and schools built by the Chinese government, a definite improvement from the old clay huts that used to stand there. However, each of these buildings was built with a Chinese flag on the roof. At the same time, the display of the Tibetan flag has been banned at many of these new buildings, especially the schools. When peaceful demonstrators in the Ma Ngoe township tried to replace the Chinese flag on their public school with a Tibetan flag, five truckloads...
...recent years, Illinois' Republican Party has been so neutered that, in 2004, it imported Alan Keyes from Maryland to compete against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat. So Steele's visit demonstrates a key aspect of his strategy for reviving the party: planting the party's flag in states beyond the South long ago dismissed by the GOP, while maintaining strongholds like DuPage...