Word: neutralization
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...local murder trial. Hard to find anything less personal than that, yet it is precisely this kind of impersonal recounting of some irrelevant bit of news that is often resorted to by distraught lovers who are contending with some strain and who thus choose to recount details from a neutral territory as they wait out a storm that swirls about them." Absent anything more incriminating, however, such as accounts by someone who saw the two having sex or expressions of carnal desire from Lincoln or Speed, it's hard to view the letter as anything other than a description...
...that they see the world--or at least faces--differently. Italian researchers recruited 49 shy third- and fourth-graders and asked them to identify emotion in the facial expressions of other children in a video-game format. The shyest kids had difficulty identifying expressions that were either hostile or neutral. Joy, on the other hand, was almost never misread...
...Yushchenko, "The meeting was initiated by Yushchenko, and the SBU agreed to it in good faith to discuss how to keep [anticipated street protests] under control in case of rigged elections." A key Yushchenko staffer says that Smeshko made it clear at the dinner that the SBU would remain neutral - which amounted to tacit support for Yushchenko. At least one part of Yushchenko's account is disputed by Volodymyr Syvkovych, who is leading a parliamentary investigation into the dinner. Syvkovych told Time that someone from Yushchenko's team was present at the meal: David Zhvania, an M.P. with Yushchenko...
...wider war. Because of the consequences of America's biased support of Israel, the U.S. faces strong and increasing anti-American sentiment among Muslims. The U.S. needs to change the perception that the war on terrorism is a war on Islam. The U.S. needs to be a neutral arbitrator that tolerates, supports and loves Israelis and Palestinians equally and fairly. Only then can the war on terrorism be won. Volak Sao Phnom Penh Phil Knight: Just do It Phil Knight, who is giving up his role as Nike's CEO while retaining the title of chairman [MILESTONES...
...powerful will the director be? Republican Senator Susan Collins describes the DNI as the "quarterback," controlling most of the $40 billion spent annually on intelligence, setting priorities among the 15 spy agencies and forcing them to share secrets. So that the director would remain neutral and not become bogged down in operational details, Congress didn't give the DNI control over spying at the CIA and other agencies. But without operational control, the director may be less useful to the President and therefore have less access to him. It will take a close friend of Bush's or someone "very...