Word: symbolics
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...both popular and fashionable to say that the mastery of international relations is an art. After all, history has given us poignant dramas like the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, yet also regrettable farces like the Munich Agreements of 1935, pompously presented by British Prime Minister Chamberlain as a symbol of “peace in our time.” However, a fallacy lies beneath this analogy: where ambiguous art is celebrated, countries with vague intentions certainly are not. The Islamic Republic of Iran is an actor that seems not to comprehend this impossibility. Its flirtatious relationship with nuclear proliferation...
...again, exasperated. Only the U.K., which will lead the force into the field, is enthusiastic about the idea - and even British military officers are privately skeptical about the vague objectives and complex command arrangements they have to work with. It was always a gamble to make Afghanistan the symbol of a reinvigorated Atlantic alliance. The country is far from the immediate interests of most European states. Over the last 150 years, soldiers from many nations have left their bones on its bleak mountainsides. It probably achieved its greatest unity under the Taliban's Islamo-fascism. Narcotics remain the lifeblood...
...good sound insulator; and 2) we were meant to eat it. The project team may want to invest in a little more image research. Though to them, pizza is an oily olive branch, it doesn’t represent the same thing to everyone. Pizza is a symbol rooted in sorrow and conflict. East River-ites associate pizza with the smell of tomato sauce and broken scapulae, especially after trying to get their hands on a slice when the project team delivered them to House dining halls. In anticipation of the pizza’s arrival, undergraduates gathered to Lamont...
...ingrained part of daily life, Sharon has almost become part of each family. He has been in our living rooms on television every night for decades, and, especially in the past five years, he has been discussed at Shabbat dinners all over the country every week. Such a symbol of vitality, it is a shock to us all to witness his physical vulnerability...
...geopolitical importance of this Sri Lankan--born, London-raised rapper has been heavily overstated by people who would rather she were a symbol than a star. Her manic energy and supremely confident delivery on such songs as Galang (now the sound track to a Honda commercial) matches her ear for those small production details that turn songs into bustling streets in foreign capitals. That's the combination, instead of her blend of ethnicities, that makes this the most compelling debut of the year...