Word: familiarization
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...media in Iraq can be tightly restricted by the military. Others, writing for privately owned newspapers and magazines, say that prioritizing profit is just as destructive to journalism as a censor's pen - something that journalists complain about all the time, wherever they are. Tabloid journalists will be especially familiar with the pressure to inflate stories in order to trump the competition. Magazine reporter Li Yang puts it beautifully: "I told my editors that if you want me to pluck a star from the sky, there are two ways: Either I fall off a skyscraper trying or I draw...
...Autonomy is a demand familiar to the Tibetan activists nearby, who have arrived from all over India to join a 24-hour hunger strike. As the protesters use loudspeakers to relay pro-Tibet speeches, a couple of cops stroll by, ogling the rosy-cheeked Tibetan girls. Police and protesters share mutual disdain. "They hate us," laughs Rachna Dhingra, an activist with the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal, which has been camping here since March to demand legal action against the corporation responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, which killed more than 3,000 people. "We're making...
...wanted to thank you for the article on home birth, since giving birth to my beautiful baby boys at home was the best gift I could have ever given them. They were born in comfort, with the familiar sounds, love and patience that they had known the whole time I was pregnant. They were helped into the world with the warmth of our midwives' hands. There was no rush--ever. It was my birth, my way. I was as in total control of my decisions as I was when I conceived these babies. I hope that one day women...
...about you." Supporters and opponents alike want a clearer picture of Obama, and they are selecting elements of his words, policies, public record and biography to shape their clashing interpretations. Those pieces of Obama are also open to interpretation, because so few of them are stamped from any familiar presidential mold: the polygamous father, the globe-traveling single mother, the web of roots spreading from Kansas to Kenya, friends and relatives from African slums to Washington and Wall Street, and intellectual influences ranging from Alexander Hamilton to Malcolm X. Four of the faces of Obama pose various threats...
...resignation speech today, Musharraf took a tone of unquestioning self-confidence familiar to readers of his highly self-regarding autobiography, In the Line of Fire. "Where was Pakistan in 1999?" he intoned. "No one knew us, no one spoke to us, and no one listened to us. Now, we have put Pakistan on the map and people take notice." Looking intently toward the camera, he declared, "This country faced unprecedented challenges. And I turned every challenge into an opportunity ... I'm leaving satisfied with my actions...