Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Education School's national reputation however, does not parallel its prestige within the University. The School of Education is often forced to take a back seat to higher-profile graduate schools, such as the Law School, the Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government...
...that is too simple a metaphor for what is happening in the first war of the age of global information. Truth and elaborate lies, hard fact and hallucination, have become central motifs in the gulf. A war of words and images has taken up a life of its own, parallel to the one in the sand...
...well, why isn't the war over?' " Another senior official says, "In this video-game war, we have been so successful so far that people may really be shocked if Saddam gets off an Exocet and sinks one of our ships or pulls some other big surprise." The parallel universes of the enemies -- that of the alliance and that of Saddam Hussein -- have their own elaborate reality and logic. Each makes some sense on its own terms, each is performing its role in collision with the other before the eyes of the world. Each is persuasive to itself and alien...
...project, which is still in the formative stages, will examine American democratic institutions and society, compare them with parallel foreign institutions and suggest reforms as they are needed, Putnam says...
...parallel between this war and the Vietnam War doesn't exist. People have tried to paint it [the Gulf war] with the Vietnam brush," Pinney says...