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...there?" a nauseatingly friendly but totally unfamiliar voice inquires...
Mixed in with the familiar Nike and Reebok commercials are more endearing ads for trivial products and more exciting ones for foreign products. The Japanese clips are compelling because of their unfamiliar perspective. One ad shows Arnold promoting something slimy: it looks like noodles but it's hard to tell...
...What elections? In the ones scheduled for Dec. 12, candidates will be running for offices in a legislature that does not yet exist, guided by a new constitution that has yet to be approved and competing in districts that have yet to be drawn up. Voters, moreover, are completely unfamiliar with key issues in the campaign and befuddled by the hundreds of parties that now exist...
...delights of Armstrong's book is her exploration of some relatively unfamiliar pathways to God. She is much taken with a Muslim movement devoted to Falsafah (roughly, philosophy) that emerged in the 9th and 10th centuries. Its advocates, known as Faylasufs, believed that the God of Greek philosophy was identical to Islam's. "Instead of seeing God as a mystery," Armstrong writes, "the Faylasufs believed he was reason itself." But they also acknowledged the chaos and disorder of the universe and recognized that their quest for ultimate meaning was a difficult one. Indirectly, the Faylasufs influenced such medieval thinkers...
...Pressure," which left the crowd frenetic, Joel seemed to run out of steam temporarily. He wandered into another song from the new album, "Shades of Grey." Joel seemed to realize that the slower song did not quite fit into the act, and even apologized at length for playing the unfamiliar song so early in the tour...