Word: avatars
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...power, and practically out of sight, living quietly in a leafy residential neighborhood in central Jakarta, for nearly 10 years. But he was not a forgotten man - when he should have been. That says much about who he was and what he stood for. Suharto was the very avatar of the philosophy of economic development first, and political progress later (if at all) - a model of governance that was once the rule in much of Asia. During his nearly 33 years in power, Suharto seemed to have forged a paternalistic pact with the people of Indonesia that went like this...
...avatar of post-baby boom politics must also deal with the fact that the first vote will occur under a byzantine process that requires politicians to perform well under the most retro conditions imaginable. The Iowa caucuses are neighborhood meetings at which voters spend hours arguing with and cajoling one another and organization trumps almost everything else. The actual number of caucusgoers is relatively small - 124,000 turned up four years ago. And they tend to make up their minds late; 2004 exit polls indicated 4 in 10 made their decisions in the last week before the caucuses. What...
...exposed to it.” Each year, production staff choose a different theme for the dance drama. This year, it will present episodes from a classic Hindu epic, the “Ramayana.” The central figures in the dance drama are Rama—an avatar of Vishnu—and his wife Sita. The story explores the themes of good and evil, as well as the definitions of the ideal man and ideal woman in Indian society. “Hindu epics give moral lessons about what your duty is,” says Martin...
Eric is a kind of avatar of Hawking himself, whose amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has progressed to the point that he has lost control of his fingers and now communicates through a computer that converts the clenching of his cheek into artificial speech. Eric, too, is totally reliant on his computer, which also has a "mechanized voice." When the machine is taken away, Eric is left in a black hole from which he is unable to communicate or emerge. That state of being cut off often afflicts children with autism, and Lucy Hawking says she co-wrote the book...
...never fully crush the human spirit. It is true that even a dedicated young slob like me occasionally feels the pressure to succumb to head to the gym, forgo red-meat, or give up my beloved beer and cigarettes. But I take heart from the words of my Shakespearean avatar, Falstaff: “I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be, virtuous enough: swore little, diced not above seven times a week, went to a bawdy house not above once in a quarter of an hour, paid money that I borrowed three or four times, lived...