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...campaign began, the propaganda of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic hit its limits in the credulity of many Serbs. His message mostly found purchase with the impoverished, rural and uneducated. In the cities you could seek out independent sources of information that put Milosevic's retrograde, neocommunist line in context. But with the war on, those independent voices are either snuffed out or taken over. Now, even among the educated elite, a slow, sad transformation is taking hold as Milosevic's distorted media prism resolves every shade of gray into black and white...
...together like the proof of a logical theorem. His characters move like points on a coordinate plane, and when the movie is complete you can see the curve of the actions that they left trailing behind them. Perhaps whats most surprising is that all of this happens in the context of a love story...
...together like the proof of a logical theorem. His characters move like points on a coordinate plane, and when the movie is complete you can see the curve of the actions that they left trailing behind them. Perhaps whats most surprising is that all of this happens in the context of a love story...
...response to the shootings, many state legislatures, including Colorado's, have suspended or dropped legislation that would loosen current gun controls. These actions are fitting both in the sense that America is in desperate need of more serious gun control and in the context of the recent shooting and its effect on the sense of safety in communities around the country...
...course, the Shakespeare search engine I used to find these quotes has a distancing quality because it displays only the line of text in which the word you want appears. It's up to you to click on the link to the whole scene and discover or recall the context of the language. Part of what has kept Shakespeare alive in our society for so long is his eminent quotability in small catch-phrases. It is easy for a politician, a screenwriter or a columnist to manipulate the poet's words for her own purposes. But the genius of Shakespeare...