Word: normalization
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...generals took control not only of the armed forces but all aspects of politics and the economy as well. In the decades since the takeover, Burma has evolved into a nation where "the military is the state," according to Burmese historian Thant Myint-U. "Army officers do everything. Normal government had withered away...
...Complete preliminary returns for Sunday's vote will likely come in only later tonight, with final official results promised by the end of this week. But in the meantime, Ukraine's political life is clearly in full swing as a normal democratic process. There will be plenty of horse-trading ahead, but most of it will be open and public...
...ordinary Burmese had overcome their fear of the regime and joined the demonstrations, their shoes slapping through the monsoon downpours alongside the monks' bare feet. While marching monks recited prayers in the commercial capital Rangoon, civilians raised their fists and chanted their own mantra: "Democracy, democracy." The participation of normal citizens has turned what had been a series of sporadic rallies into the largest sustained display of dissent in Burma in nearly two decades. "The people's only weapons are their hands," said an elderly teacher watching the procession of protestors with teary eyes. "The government wants to wipe them...
...have been reduced to second-degree aggravated battery, still unheard of for a fist-fight where the victim walked out of the hospital hours later. The 16-year-old boys, all without prior criminal records, were tried as adults in front of an all-white judge and jury. Under normal circumstances, the charges and sentence seem unnecessarily harsh. Set against the background of events in Jena, they raise the specter of racism...
...more than one real estate agent say, ‘We didn’t think that undergraduates were allowed to live off-campus,’” says Greg R. Scruggs ’08. He considers himself extremely normal for wanting to live outside of a House. “Living in a dorm—it’s kind of juvenile after twenty,” he says...