Word: echo
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...catching terrorists won't stop trying. And governments are reassessing their policies on immigration, asylum and open borders. New legislation is promised in Canada, Britain and Germany; the talks this year when Mexican and American officials seriously considered not tightening, but liberalizing, their immigration policies now bear the sad echo of a lost world...
...better, think of Hitler, the frustrated Austrian painter, whose anti-Semitism finds a terrible echo across the Islamic world today...
...henchmen are handed over to the US, Bush will “reconsider” bombing a country which is already on the verge of total collapse because of an extended famine and ceaseless war? The comment “your country” is also an echo of the doctrine of total war, that we are not simply attacking bin Laden or the Taliban or Al Quaeda, but the country as a whole...
...another echo of recent headlines, he also said the University must honor those who defend freedom. In a recent visit to the Undergraduate Council, he expressed support for the Reserve Officer Training Corps, but did not directly state that he supported its reintroduction on campus...
...story. The West seeds the world with metal oil barrels; the world sends them back as steel drums. For today's politically minded world musicians, this kind of appropriation is itself a political act, a direct echo of the challenge to non-Western cultures everywhere to become global without being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki...