Word: ritualizes
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...Atlantic Alliance. Yawn. Or perhaps a ritual bow is the more appropriate response. It's a Great Worthy, one of those things politicians shower with clichés about D-day and the Berlin Airlift before shifting their speeches to the interesting stuff. We heard it last week when George W. Bush met Tony Blair for the first time to wave the torch of the Anglo-American "special relationship." Said Bush: "This is a chance for me to tell the Prime Minister how dedicated my administration will be to an alliance that has made a huge difference in the world...
...knows, but doesn't necessarily believe, that accidents happen. That's true of any athlete entering his arena. He approaches his task confidently, understanding its risks, eyeing its rewards. What may cause awe or fear in others is, for the professional athlete, eased by the mundane ritual that accompanies the job, and an obligatory nod at danger. We all accept that...
...Klong Toey slum, they meet up with hundreds of other bikers from other slums like Makasan and Suan Phloo. They have been holding these rallies for a decade, some of the kids first coming on the backs of their older brother's bikes. Ken rot is a ritual by now, as ingrained in Thai culture as the speed they smoke to get up for the night of racing. The street is effectively closed off to non-motorcyclists and pedestrians. The bikers idle along the side of the road and then take off in twos and threes, popping wheelies, standing...
This is a sort of February ritual...
...brought his body home for burial and was sent to her in-laws to be "cleansed." This common practice gives a dead husband's brother the right, even the duty, to sleep with the widow. Thandiwe tested negative for HIV in 1998, but if she were positive, the ritual cleansing would have served only to pass on the disease. Then her in-laws wanted to keep her two daughters because their own children had died, and marry her off to an old uncle who lived far out in the bush. She fled...