Word: portrayal
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...critics say the President is attempting to rig the system to ensure he stays in power. Their ire boiled over when Pakistani police raided a television station to prevent it from covering protests outside the Supreme Court. Some Pakistanis who have excused Musharraf's authoritarianism in the past now portray him as a jackbooted dictator. "I think he has ruined himself," says retired Lieut. General Hamid Gul, former director general of the Pakistani intelligence organization Inter-Services Intelligence. "He's not going to be able to placate the forces he has unleashed...
...quite disheartening that in a few weeks time, the media will likely again portray Wellesley with what it brands as subversive secularism and sexual depravity. Such coverage provides the public with a skewed, sexually fetishized image of campus life. It also gives false hope to the hoards of desperate males from Harvard and MIT that work up the courage to brave the Senate bus—a.k.a. “Fuck Truck”—to Wellesley every weekend in the quixotic pursuit of a one-night stand or to witness wanton acts of lesbianism...
...Portrayals of genocide and mass murder victims are so frequent in modern media that our memory and compassion has grown short-lived. Today, we are concerned for the victims of Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath...
People in Japan and everywhere need to understand what really happened during WWII, that the world may take measures to assure that such events never happen again. As such, Japan (and every other country) needs textbooks that portray the events of the WWII period accurately, as well as a frank and open dialog about the horrors of WWII both among academics, and between academics and the general public. But the current government of Japan represents a constituency in which the majority of individuals were not of adult age during the Second World War. As such, although it is their duty...
...surprisingly big-hearted work, a story of redemption in the face of vapid, pretentious hedonism. And while this production, directed by Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and produced by Barry A. Shafrin ‘09, may not always understand the scene it tries to portray, it more than gets by on its sincere belief in the value of familial love...