Word: blog
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...long drives in the mountains. And I religiously keep up to date on new developments in the automobile industry, so much so that one of my blockmates nicknamed me “Autoblog” after I told her once that I needed to finish reading the car news blog of the same name before we went to Annenberg for dinner. By and large, though, I’ve had to keep my interest closeted at Harvard, despite it being a big part of my life. Very few people here know much about cars, and very few care, either...
...Quranic verses on reproductive rights. From the young men and women students, there were nods, furious scribblings, and the odd giggle. And then there was the group of young women, all majoring in gender studies at the local Islamic college, who were snapping pictures to post on their feminist blog. "The patriarchy is very strong," concedes one blogger, Asih Baet, in John Lennon specs and a black hijab. But across Indonesia, in mosques, on blogs, and in former guava orchards, there are rebellions against...
...cancellation shocked gay-rights activists and foreign observers alike. "I was disappointed to hear that the parade had been cancelled," Stephen Wordsworth, Britain's ambassador to Serbia, wrote in his blog on the embassy's website. "Those people who had wanted to demonstrate peacefully had lost. Those who were prepared to use all means to stop them had won." Some Serbian politicians were even more forceful in their condemnation: "The state has capitulated under threats of fascists," Zarko Korac, a parliament member from the Social Democratic Union party, was quoted as saying by the Serbian news website Pescanik...
...there is a fate worse than obsolescence. It’s the kind of obsolescence that doesn’t realize it’s obsolete, the sensation you get when watching your mother try to “make a blog.” I see it happening all around me. Politicians and professors are all having Rip Van Winkle moments. They lie down for a brief nap after some ninepins, wake up, and suddenly everyone around them is “tweeting.” But then, unlike Rip, they decide to join in. Anyone who?...
...blow to Czech interests. "The first feeling is a great disappointment and disgust over Mr. Obama's cowardice," Vidim said, according to the website of the daily Lidove Noviny. "He performs endless concessions, for example towards Russia. I consider it a betrayal of allies." (Read a Joe Klein blog post on the scrapping of antimissile defenses...