Word: patterning
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...move against TV-6 confirmed a pattern that has been taking shape since Putin assumed office just under two years ago. Engaging and even ingratiating overseas, he can be implacable at home, determined to build a political system where you question or embarrass the state at your peril. NTV learned this to its cost last year, and TV-6 became a prime target when it adopted the same stridently critical approach to Kremlin policies. Since Putin endorsed the war against terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, the West has been mostly silent about Putin's continued crackdown on the media...
...with a friend in the top job, Charles might find it easier eventually to marry Camilla Parker Bowles. Divorced couples are currently remarried in the church only at the discretion of the priest - another thorny issue waiting to ambush the Canterbury incumbent. Meanwhile, Chartres may take hope from the pattern of recent decades: the Canterbury job has alternated between the denomination's high church "smells and bells" wing and the sometimes - but not always - "happy clappy" evangelical faction, to which Carey and Nazir-Ali belong...
...steady stream of gunmen and suicide bombers. There's little reason to believe that more of the same will succeed. But reoccupying the West Bank and Gaza urban centers remains exceedingly risky for the Israelis, both politically and militarily, and they're more likely to maintain the current pattern of moving troops in with heavy air- and armored support to do house-to-house searches, make arrests, and then withdrawing...
...Today's violence is increasingly assuming a pattern of a war of attrition, waged by shadowy armed guerrilla groups who mount guerrilla and terrorist attacks both in the West Bank and Gaza and inside Israel itself. One notable effect of the shift not lost on Israelis is the fact that this has begun to equalize the casualty count between the two sides, compared with the early days of the current uprising in which Palestinian deaths outnumbered Israelis' by five-to-one or more. Palestinian militants have begun to adopt the strategies that Hezbollah used to drive Israel out of Lebanon...
...pattern is forming for the new fashion in Amer-indies. Start with a teasingly obscure title; gaze fascinatedly at people in more trouble than they know; give lots of screen space and time to yearning stares; and, about 40 min. into the anomie, kill off a soulful son with a surprise gun blast. That's the recipe for In the Bedroom, which won a slew of critics' awards, and for Monster's Ball, a pained drama that is better than it sounds...