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...strong-minded, determined. That tenacity, so crucial to her physical recovery, may also be what saves her from being crushed by the attention that now surrounds her. "When it's all over," says her father Greg Lynch, "she'll just be an old country girl"--the label a shorthand for the virtues that matter, like kindness and toughness. For all the attention, all the books and banners and presents and parades, her parents understand that Jessica Lynch has become a convenient emblem for this war, its first name and memorable face. "But there's other soldiers with names and faces...
...doughy bagel, but Uggs have a troubled history in the cultural lexicon that remains unknown to many of the campus fashionistas who sport them with a mini in public. From admittedly cool beginnings among Aussie surfers in the 1970s for warming up after hanging ten, the Ugg became shorthand in Antipodean fashion circles as synonymous with only the most slothful and sloppy of lazy layabouts. Banned from public places—either through cold stares or more formal door policies—the Ugg was the ultimate in fashion faux pas. That was, at least, until unlikely style icon Pamela...
...lives—what we eat for dinner, say, or how we celebrate holidays—for granted. At Harvard, though, away from our families, we begin to see the observances we took for granted as unique to our cultural communities. Our cultural identities work as a sort of shorthand for the experiences we share in common; cultural organizations are so appealing because they can provide an instant connection to people whose lives are in some basic way similar to ours...
...kill Shi'as without hesitation," said Ali al-Rubieh, a pilgrim visiting Najaf from Basra. "They don't regard us as Muslims, anyway." The White House and Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, described the bombing as an act of terrorism, which has become shorthand for al-Qaeda. And in Najaf, reports circulated that the local police had arrested up to 19 men with alleged al-Qaeda connections, though in the chaos it was impossible to say whether that haul included the two men whom TIME had seen saved from the mob by U.S. forces...
...repentant sinner. "The pattern is a common one," writes Jane Schaberg, a professor of religious and women's studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and author of last year's The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: "the powerful woman disempowered, remembered as a whore or whorish." As shorthand, Schaberg coined the term "harlotization...