Word: mantras
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...Seeing is believing" is a common mantra in Western culture, and in the artistic world, photography is, for many, the best medium to capture reality. Photographs are admissible as court evidence, and we take photographs to document events, preserve memories and visually relate to others part of our experiences...
...Gulf War coalition. And, of course, the legislators may be keen to hear what other ideas the secretary of state may have if they're to swallow a significantly softer sanctions regime. There, Powell may be in a bit of a box. While he can ritually intone the mantra of taking steps to change the regime in Baghdad, he also has to be concerned that this is a policy option that causes concern among the Arab states on whom Washington must rely to enforce the arms embargo. Powell may envisage a policy of long-term containment of Saddam, but that...
...Falun Gong is a test of the Communist Party's resolve?the group claims more than 100 of its members have perished in Chinese prisons?it's also a critical trial for Hong Kong's ability to retain its separate way of life. The guiding mantra in the former colony is "one country, two systems," but the trend, many fear, is veering more toward a single country and less toward diverging systems. Prominent Hong Kong citizens with strong ties to Beijing are issuing shrill condemnations of Falun Gong and its activities in the territory, prompting speculation that a mainland-style...
...suggest an offhand wit that whispered to the audience: Nothing matters, it's only a movie. The blitheness was in keeping with Bing's radio personality, and probably with his real one. Bing enjoyed a genuine or seeming ad-lib; sometimes he'd use it like a mantra. In January 1950 Louis Armstrong, a guest on Bing's radio show, remarked that he had just concluded a tour of Scandinavia. Did you "Skol" much? asked Bing. Satchmo's reply: "I was the skolinest cat in town." Bing loved this exchange so much he cited it in his autobiography "Call...
...income tax, Bush's statements have been a masterpiece of misleading rhetoric. The statistics he offers--that the top 1 percent of households earn 18 percent of national income, yet pay 33.5 percent of income taxes--may seem compelling, as is his mantra that lower-income families will receive a greater proportional reduction in their income taxes. But Bush ignores that the income tax has become primarily a tax of the rich. Three out of four families now pay more in payroll taxes, the 15-percent tax that funds Social Security, than they do in income taxes. Yet Bush...