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This is a valid comparison. Much like Vietnam, Bosnia is a land foreign to American soldiers. It presents an unfamiliar terrain and adds to it a people with unfamiliar language and cultural traditions. The origin of the Bosnian conflict is largely alien to the average American GI, and the rationale behind American intervention is further hidden in ambiguity. In as much as Vietnam became the manifestation of George Kennan's containment doctrine, so has Bosnia become the symbol of America's ambivalent role as the global superpower. If not with Vietnam, then similar comparisons are provided by the military disaster...
...that is exactly what Davis and the nation's other 33,000 caseworkers are required to do. Dispatched into unfamiliar, often dangerous surroundings, they are expected to make instant predictions about tomorrow, based largely on a sixth sense about the data their five senses gather today. Certainly many people outrank them in the child-welfare hierarchy, yet their views carry the greatest weight. Only they "walk up the drug-filled staircase, sit on the dirty couch and talk to the teenage mother," says Marc Parent, who spent four years as a caseworker in New York City. As the Elisa Izquierdo...
...jumping portion of the competition is judged by how well a rider and a relatively unfamiliar horse navigates a series of jumps and obstacles in a given time frame. Riders are judged on equitation (how they present themselves on the horse) and on handling skill. Of course, dressage comes into play here as well, although the individual rider ultimately has no control over how well their horse has been trained...
...like a sorcerer but instead as an African medicine man. And the music incorporates elements of rap and opera. "Ultimately," says Daniels, "I want to see how one comes to understand the experience of 'the other.'" He does this in part by setting Prospero's experience in such an unfamiliar environment...
...just how would the unfamiliar ice surface affect the Crimson...