Fans waved their blue-and-white banners, and the Wildcats walloped Vanderbilt and were joyously headed for a bowl game, their first in several years.

(A blue-and-white "For God, for Country and for Yale" banner hangs over his desk at the company headquarters in Kunduz.)

A hand-scrawled, blue-and-white banner hangs limply over the arms factory entrance, proclaiming, "Democracy.

A flag flew from the highest rooftop, but Marcus Adrogans could not recognize the blue-and-white banner as belonging to any nation or unit.

"Tiger's Championship," the blue-and-white banner read.

"Happy Holidays" signs marking the start of Passover on Monday compete for attention with long blue-and-white banners that evoke the ghosts of the Holocaust.

Two days after the capture of Guayaquil, García Moreno ordered Franco's blue-and-white banner taken down, and replaced with the flag of Ecuador.

At the Arab village of Sinji, north of Ramallah, where there is a welcome sign on an arch, someone had replaced the Palestinian flag with a blue-and-white Israeli banner.

The players could tell they had a following by the blue-and-white Honduran banners flapping all over the stadium.

Despite the warning of a sellout, Honduran fans attached blue-and-white banners to their cars and beeped their horns all the way from New England, from the Carolinas, from New York.