Word: microcosms
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...military may be inclined to seize and occupy the town early in the war. While averting a Kurd-Turk battle for the city, that would nonetheless leave the U.S. forced to adjudicate between the competing claims of two of its allies - a dilemma that may capture in microcosm the larger challenge of managing a post-Saddam Iraq...
...even stranger is the "prequel": the lives of Chan's parents, Charles and Lily, on their perilous journeys to Hong Kong. The absorbing documentary Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family, which premiered at last month's Berlin Film Festival, reveals the extended Chan clan as a microcosm of China's turbulent 20th century history. It's a riveting yarn, too, replete with guns, gore, drugs, thugs and romance...
...That was just a microcosm of how the year went. Friday night we didn’t show up to play, then Saturday night we showed up, worked hard, outworked them, but then it got taken away by the refs,” Parker said, referring to the 30 penalty minutes his team was assessed in Game 2. “They stuck it to us pretty good, and they kept sticking...
...here). Hell, it wasn’t even the bonehead who decided to douse the home team’s bench with pepper spray and delay the ending to a terribly played game. Instead, my mouth dropped open at the history crammed into the arena, making it the perfect microcosm of a Bostonian’s sports memories starting from the early 1900s...
...power." She was quickly chided by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. But her remarks came just as Germany's Justice Ministry was working on a revision of the unfair trading law, and others rallied to her defense, including agricultural groups and makers of brand-name products. It's a microcosm of a divisive and peculiarly European debate: How low should retail prices be allowed to go? Predatory pricing - selling below cost to drive competitors out of business - is illegal everywhere, including in the U.S. But many European nations also heavily restrict or ban outright the promotions and discount prices that...