Word: visione
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...appreciate the privilege and prestige inherent in attending this university, spend extra time on the way to class stopping to avoid interfering with pictures taken in front of University Hall, be distracted by the camera flashes in your peripheral vision as you try to stay awake through a lecture in Sanders Theatre, hear the tourists bargaining with security at the entrance to Widener Library, stare back at the passers-by looking through the open curtains of your suite, or watch as the staff at Annenberg sprints to the hall’s entrance to intercept disobedient and/or ignorant tourists intent...
...mosque, the city remains quiet. Sergeant Jose L. Carillo of the 2/5's Whiskey Company looks out from a position on a nearby rooftop. "These guys fight when they want to fight, not when we want them to fight," Carillo says of the insurgents, as he peers through night-vision goggles. "They just keep on recruiting. And, I don't mind saying it, we don't have enough people for what we're doing...
Team America applies the innocent make-believe of puppets to numbingly real issues: the use of military power to fight insurgent forces and the vision of the U.S. as a superstud nation beset by terrorists abroad and liberal actors at home. It pulls off this brassy trope in the guise of an action movie in the Jerry Bruckheimer mode. Imagine Armageddon starring Pinocchio...
...risky to try reading the minds of Parker and Stone. But having mocked the President in the live-action family sitcom That's My Bush!, they seem now to be sharing his vision. The jokes about a paramilitary force that destroys countries it wants to save are a lot less bilious than the ones aimed at the lefty actors...
...course, is how Islamic Sistani wants Iraq to be. He has made it clear that foreign powers cannot be allowed to dictate the country's form of government, nor does he want to replicate a Western model. He has said Islamic law should govern family and personal matters. "His vision of the good state," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad, "is not where my wife and daughter would want to live." But Sistani's aides say he considers the Khomeini and Taliban experiments in theocracy failures--too extreme and rigid for modern society, especially one as demographically diverse as Iraq...