Word: parallelling
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...parallel between East Timor and Aceh isn't exact. East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, enjoyed a brief period of self-determination before it was invaded and absorbed by Indonesia in 1975. It never really cohered to the country under former President Suharto, who ordered the invasion. Aceh, in contrast?like the rest of post-independence Indonesia?had been part of the former Dutch East Indies, and has since been a major contributor to the national wealth by producing billions of dollars worth of liquefied natural...
...flags flying from electricity poles and crude roadblocks of felled trees outside the town?constructed to block military access?suggest that's no exaggeration. In such villages GAM is trying to set up the rudiments of a parallel administration. It is also stepping up military training in makeshift camps where GAM senior cadres?some trained in Libya, others former Indonesian soldiers?put village youths through their paces...
...between characters. All of its thematic gestures seem to feed off of each other, each adding another layer of depth. The film, for example, raises a subtle contrast between Luzhin’s brilliant capacity for strategy and his crippling psychological illnesses. This contrast plays out along the constant parallel between Luzhin’s life and chess games and richens the film’s ending...
...thought it was a very supportive environment that helped students learn in the best way they could. Harvard undergrad prepares you for the Medical school by surrounding you with highly competitive and motivated people and setting high standards for you-this is a strong parallel between the Medical school and Harvard College" said Pippins...
...slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross over the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes the draining of the lymph. Certain yoga poses...