Word: directedness
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Blaming an overseas figure - a strategy that was also employed after the deadly riots in Tibet in March 2008, which China says were masterminded by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader - helps authorities dissipate anger that might be directed at Uighur citizens in Xinjiang. When thousands of revenge...
Benedict, who doesn't have the same instincts in world diplomacy as Pope John Paul II and has had some notable verbal missteps, has a new opportunity with a like-minded Obama Administration to have more of a say on a vast array of foreign policy challenges. Among other issues...
For the record, Brüno, like Borat, was directed by Larry Charles. And as with Borat, the story in Brüno is just the merest pretext for stringing together provocations. At the beginning, Brüno is the hip-cocking host of Funkyzeit, a late-night Austrian TV...
There was very little time to reflect once the lights went up after the ceremony. Ushers gently directed the audience to exits as black bunting was pulled from Velcro rail attachments. Scores of Staples Center workers snapped up folding chairs. The memorial set gave way to the Ringling Bros. Circus...
These worthy films were based on fact and told a microscopic truth, but they left untold the larger ache of an Iraq tour: how men in peril survive. Finally comes The Hurt Locker, a scary, thrilling patrol of those Baghdad streets by men who defuse IEDs. Written by journalist Mark...