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Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
ingenue: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. ingenue [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Thursday February 13, 2003
ingenue AN-zhuh-noo, noun:
1. A naive girl or young woman.
2. An actress playing such a person; also: the stage role of an ingenue.
This is not the face of an ingenue; this is an old soul in a new body -- wary, wise to her own long past, on to the wiles of the world, and having miles to go before she sleeps.
--Sarah Ban Breathnach, Something More
Her passages -- from ingenue to royal bride to young mother to estranged wife to independent-minded divorcee -- attracted a global audience and made Diana the world's most famed and photographed woman.
--Eugene Robinson, "From Sheltered Life to Palace Life, To a Life of Her Own," Washington Post, September 1, 1997
Ingenue comes from the French, from Latin ingenuus, "freeborn; worthy of a free man; hence honorable, frank; tender, delicate." |
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| AUSTRALIA: ANTIWAR REPORT |
Feb 12 2003 |
 Return To Sender
All over the nation, Australians are marking as Return to Sender the anti-terror kits being sent to them by the Howard Government and popping them back in the post-box.
The campaign started with the Mayor of Brisbane's suggestion that "Australians who did not support the Howard government's backing of America's war should simply return the package to sender. " The package contained information about what to do if terrorists attacked and many Australians see this as US-backed government scare-mongering. Many critics suggest the package contained nothing of real informative value.
Another grassroots action consists of sending small bags of rice per post to US President Bush, Australian Prime Minister Howard, UK PM Blair and others.
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| GLOBAL: MANUFACTURING CONSENT |
Feb 11 2003 |
 Wall Street Journal Makes News... Literally!
Last week the line between news reporting and news creation in the corporate media became all the more thin. It was learned that the letter of support written by leaders of eight European nations (three of them not part of the EU) for the Bush regime's war in Iraq that appeared on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) was actually solicited from signitories by the deputy editorial editor of the Journal's European edition. Upon publication, the letter suddenly became "news", appearing in WSJ's news pages, The New York Times, and throughout the corporate media.
Initial reports of the story's manufacture seem to have come from Spain. WSJ editors, unabashedly pro-war and allied with the far-right regime in Washington, published a brash defense of their practice that avoided the ethical issue of turning their own editorial initiatives into news. That practice is a regular feature of many mainstream papers in the US.
Read: entire feature | Janurary 23 feature
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| BOLIVIA: CIVIL WAR |
Feb 12 2003 |
 Bolivia Burning
When today the President Sochez de Lozada announced the application of a tax law on basic salaries as ordered by the IMF, his words resulted in a popular rebellion, that continued all day long and will have its follow-up in tomorrow general strike.
Since the morning of February 12, hundreds of mutinied policemen clashed [  1 | 2 | 3 ] with military police in the main square of La Paz, in front of the Government Palace. This has resulted in 18 persons killed and more than 90 people injured by the use of live ammunition. In the afternoon, while riots were still taking place, thousands of people went spontaneously to the streets, sacking banks and burning political party and governement offices.
Civil war erupting throughout the country as people are asking the President to resign. The government was forced to cancel the economic measures it had announced, but tension have not lowered. As nightfall came, sacking is occuring throughout the city while the Army patrols the streets.
Read: detailed report | Bolivia arde (es), guerra civile (it), Aufstand in Bolivien (de), and La Paz, Bolivia is About to Explode (en)
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