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Many politicians wear those tiny flag pins in their lapels as some kind of signal about how patriotic they are. Apart from the fact that the vast majority of them are made in China, it does about as much good as the constantly flying Stars & Stripes in the upper corner of the Fox News screen. On the other hand, one of the more obvious signs of solidarity and support for a particular cause has been the wearing of lapel ribbons. We have yellow for the troops, pink for breast cancer research, red for AIDS relief ... and now blue, for putting Paul Wolfowitz out of a job. Apparently, in the midst of the Wolfowitz corruption scandal at the World Bank, staffers have donned blue lapel ribbons on their lapels as a show of solidarity. "Blue ribbons are everywhere," says the World Bank Staff Association. "The blue ribbon is a way of responding to concern about the fitness of certain high level officials to represent the World Bank's agenda around the globe." The ribbons first started appearing on lapels around the World Bank's H Street headquarters in Washington about 10 days ago. No word yet on how widely the trend has spread among other offices, or whether there is particular significance to the color blue. But you can bet your bottom dollar a certain World Bank President is feeling pretty blue, right now!

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No need to get your ribbon in a twist Paul... Yet!