Stars and Stripes Are Gone, but There Is Plenty to Salute
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ENNIFER CAPRIATI had already dispatched Serena Williams, with a little help from the flawed human eye. Justine Henin-Hardenne was long gone, leaving a vacuum at the top of the draw.
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For many men, loyalty is sacred. Except when it isn't.
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Athens -- It&#39;s a good thing the Olympics end today. It seems the American team has overstayed its welcome by a few days. For the most part, the Greeks have been outstanding hosts.
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Blog: While the rest of the nation celebrates Independence Day, Microsoft gets more confirmation that its once legendary domination over the desktop is slipping away.
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NEW YORK, May 28 -- Veterans and active-duty  troops unfurled a 90-by-100-foot American flag as the nation's top commander in the Middle East spoke to a Memorial Day crowd gathered in Central Park on Monday.
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As the nation continues to celebrate the desegregation of major league baseball, the question is why African-Americans have vanished from the sportâs landscape.
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What Alicia Watkins remembers more than   anything is the flags. Weeping, and wiping her eyes, she stood   before the Stars and Stripes at half mast on Monday and spoke   of being in the Pentagon on September 11 five years go.
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The ending of border checks between the former communist states of eastern Europe and Western neighbours on Friday carries a potent symbolism for those who for long lived behind the Iron Curtain and were then made to feel like "second class citizens" in a united Europe.
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Sept. 11, as a public occasion, has shrunk to life size: potent as ever for people holding photographs, but unlikely to start wars again.
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Serbia's parliament has approved a new national emblem and anthem. It is dropping a five-pointed communist star and restoring a coat-of-arms that was last used in the 19th century.
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Robbie Swanson, 7, holds a flag to honor victims of 9/11 during a Freedom Walk Monday in Salt Lake City, part of a Defense Department effort to honor those who serve.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Flags across Russia were lowered to half mast yesterday in preparation for the two days of national mourning decreed by President Vladimir Putin to commemorate the victims of the Beslan school siege.
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Washington -- It was auctioned off for $286,000 in 1977 by President Carter in his effort to eliminate symbols of the &quot;imperial presidency.
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Designers who stuck close to their patriotic toots have produced some standout collections
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Orders to lower the American flag, and decisions not to, are part of a conflict over how to commemorate tragedy when there is so much of it.
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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The college graduates who are soon to complete training at the nation's oldest naval air station will be the final class to graduate from the base's officer candidate school, ending a military tradition that lasted nearly seven decades.