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Every week Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma's staff sends out a missive to all the country's television, radio and newspaper outlets. Known as temniki, "theme lists," the directives outline the issues to be covered in news reports and provide instructions on how these issues are to be treated. For example, when mass protests take place - the most recent, in September, drew 100,000 people in the capital, Kiev - photographers are told to start taking pictures only after most of the demonstrators have departed, resulting in shots of a few stragglers milling around in a public square instead of tens...
...debuts in Europe over the next few weeks. They won't admit they watch Enterprise, the sixth - sixth - TV series in the franchise. They tell buddies they are going to Vegas for blackjack and bourbon but instead dwell in the celestial sanctuary of Star Trek: The Experience, an indoor theme park that has drawn 2.3 million visitors since opening in 1998. They may even find urgent business reasons to be in London this week when "Star Trek - The Adventure" - the largest-ever interactive exhibition of sets, props and costumes - begins its world tour in a massive tent in Hyde Park...
Rich Halvorson recounted his conversion from Buddhism to devout Christianity in his first year at Harvard. In a pitch for prayer, Rich talked about living close to God. In fact, selfless personal advocacy was the theme of the evening. Krish Subrahmanian talked about caring for sick children. Shelby Braxton-Brooks stumped for the arts, leading the entire group in a samba session. Michelle Kuo recruited for the homeless shelter...
...Florence, there was a giddy hopefulness that may well have been missing since 1968, but there were no paisley peaceniks. The weekend’s theme was “Another Europe is Possible,” and likely for the first time in years, a majority of the participants actually believed it. The issue-based activism of the 1980s and 1990s and the recognition of a common foe in the world financial structures had been stitched together by the shared experience of police repression. Participants in the Genoa protests recounted how seven different columns of protestors marched...
Lurie drew on a theme of the “lack of respect” for the council...