Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ruth A. Barron and Jennifer Leaning '67, two Harvard medical school faculty members in the area with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), it was a sad but familiar human story of a conflict most Americans just watch...
...preeminent leader in 1991, when he faced down a communist coup aimed at rolling back reform. Then he was Russia's first real politician, and his thick hair and fast smile seemed to evoke a future that made Russians dreamy with hope. But Yeltsin today is an all too familiar Russian archetype. Reclusive and suspicious, the President lives in a tightly sealed world. Most presidential meetings are rigid and formal. Senior Cabinet ministers and aides have an old-fashioned phone next to their desks. Instead of a dial it bears a simple sign reading THE PRESIDENT. It is widely understood...
...government may have used the media to whip up the anger on the streets--outsiders saw it as a way of deflecting attention from next month's 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre--but it did not create that anger. Even academics familiar with the West assumed that in the Belgrade bombing the U.S. had made a deliberate decision to violate Chinese sovereignty. "The U.S. needs an enemy in the world to solve problems in their own country," says Pan Wenguo, former head of international Chinese studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. Few see the bombing as a mistake...
...shalt model caring behaviors in interactive relationships with thy peer group. In the public schools, where any kind of commandment might be deemed unduly judgmental, character ed revolves around pillars or building blocks of character--universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words of the week--all the cheerful paraphernalia that makes the modern American classroom seem like a Maoist re-education camp run by Barney the dinosaur...
Suddenly a new world unfolded before me. Where once was the boringly familiar Windows desktop, now was something that looked like the footprint of a four-toed gnome. Where does the footprint lead? What are the pitfalls ahead? I'll let you know when I find...