Word: isolationism
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The dominant view among Western analysts is that Milosevic still has his hands full with Bosnia, and will avoid extending the war to Kosovo until his current charm offensive to secure diplomatic recognition of Serbia's gains in Bosnia has stalled. "But we have continually underestimated the savagery of this...
"Graduate life can be lonely, and the isolation in which [students] work is not very productive," he said. "I would like to create more of a community."
Back in the garden at Kozarac, the fighters with Dragan Zamaklaar shrugged off the plunder and dispossession. "Of course there are robberies -- this is war," explained one. The Serbs may chafe at the isolation brought on by a war of their own making, but they are not about to reverse...
Not that isolation is anything new for North Korea. The country's few televisions are configured so that they cannot pick up broadcasts from the South. Radios are built to receive only one Big Brother channel. Short-wave receivers are illegal for average citizens.
Hawking, though, is seen mainly in tight close-up, often reflected in the TV monitor essential to his life and work. This, combined with the sound of Hawking's voice synthesizer, reinforces our sense of his isolation and immobility and the idea that we are in the presence of pure...