Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...North Korea is run by a dynastic regime that has extinguished the human spirit so ruthlessly that Mao's Cultural Revolution, by contrast, looks like a dinner party. Yet the country's appalling record on missile and weapons proliferation, its illegal-drug sales and counterfeiting and its abysmal human-rights record here are implicitly just the antics of a misunderstood regime. Pyongyang's extortionate tactics with Kim Dae Jung, the South Korean leader who tried to coax it out of isolation, are also glossed over. In Chinoy's zeal to castigate the neocons, there is a subtle subtext that...
...willingness to "give madmen the benefit of the doubt." Rudy Giuliani, the veteran New York prosecutor doing part jury summation, part stand-up, swept swing voters into his arms and danced. He told McCain's heroic story yet again, but this time it was to set up a relentless contrast to the Ivy League guy who rose through Chicago-machine politics to reach the state legislature and vote "present" 130 times because "deciding 'yes' or 'no' was too tough" on his way to becoming a "celebrity Senator" who "has never led anything. Nothing. Nada." By the end Giuliani was ignoring...
...Merrion Dublin (www.merrionhotel.com) has one of the most important collections of Irish art outside a conventional gallery - and it's constantly evolving as proprietor Lochlann Quinn makes fresh purchases. The explosive color and intensity of nudes by Irish Post-Impressionist Roderic O'Connor, a close friend of Gauguin's, contrast strikingly with the simplified shapes and subtle lighting in William Scott's kitchen-implement still lifes. The collection also features powerful observations of Irish rural life by Jack B. Yeats, brother of the poet, haunting society portraits by John Lavery and a specially commissioned Dublin triptych by Martin Mooney...
...Harvard sophomore claimed that, in contrast, the levees he had seen in predominantly white communities to the north were stronger and could withstand greater storm surges...
...Just hours later, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis attacked Obama for criticizing McCain and Palin. "So he attacks us while there's a hurricane going on and John McCain suspends his convention basically," Davis said in an interview with the Politico. "What bigger contrast can you have about putting your country first...