Word: portrayal
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...talk to about 30 students from China at a journalism class at a Hong Kong university. Riots had erupted in China's Xinjiang province between the indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese immigrants only days before. The subject quickly turned to Western press coverage of the upheaval, which tended to portray the Uighurs as a beleaguered minority deprived of opportunity. Why, the students asked, do Western media report stories so differently than the Chinese (state-controlled) media? What quickly became clear was their unstated attitude: What right do you Americans have imposing your paradigm...
Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68, who represented the committee at the meeting, said that the name “would reflect modern uses and accurately portray that students study today at the Extension School in pursuit of professional training as well as a liberal arts education...
...simply pulling out of Afghanistan. That option isn't even on the White House table, despite growing public desire to end the war. The true aim of the hawks, or all-outers, in this maneuver is to discredit the real policy alternative - the middle ground. Their ploy is to portray the middle way as simply a cover for getting out. (See pictures of Gitmo detainees...
...resume cheering for the team he loves. Siegel, formerly a writer for The Onion, has a knack for crafting characters that aren’t exactly living the dream. This was evident in “The Wrestler” and is echoed here. But rather than portray a man who has fallen from former glory, his directorial debut brings to life a character that has never and will never achieve glory, or any semblance of an independent life above mediocrity. This choice makes “Big Fan” perhaps a more pessimistic movie, but one with...
...have differences of opinion. If an individual has rendered service to a country, that does not mean that people should always embrace the person. People make their own decisions. With regard to the agitations and provocations created by some western governments, that is correct, they too tried to actually portray the chaos as legal and as a positive trend. They gave it a positive spin. Specifically British officials from the government did these acts. They were involved. We are not saying that they designed and planned what transpired in the elections in Iran, but what I mean is that they...