Word: mantras
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...surfing down the sides of a 120-m-long snow chute, vaulting high into the air, twisting, turning and flipping, then zipping down the slope again and up the other side, going back and forth, like a human pendulum. It looks like skateboarding in snow. Both profess, in the mantra of their sport, that having fun is more important than winning. Insists Miyake: "I don't know why the medal question keeps coming up all the time." If she wins, it will be one for the slackers, zero for the salarymen...
...measure, the situation has the makings of an epic human catastrophe. And to reduce this dismal state of affairs to a mantra about Arafat doing more to rein in terrorism is simply deluded...
...fuss over the status and treatment of the 158 Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners held at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo cuts to the heart of European skepticism over President Bush's "you're either with us or against us" mantra. What it shows is that even allies have their limits, and even a nation as strong as the U.S. needs friends...
Krauthammer has provided the perfect response to the mindless mantra "Violence only breeds more violence." He makes it clear that the lack of a violent response to past terrorist attacks has given the Islamic extremists a sense of invincibility. And as Krauthammer has pointed out, their quick defeat in Afghanistan has had the effect of eroding their support in the Arab world. ARMIN SOMMER Venice...
Audiences unreceptive to his mantra of change haven’t daunted him. The friction with Afro-American studies is only the most visible of the disputes this fall...