Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ways, Harvard professors and students work together to spread their liberal propaganda. First-years capable of thinking for themselves are the raw materials that are fed into the Harvard factory. Inside the building, professors and students work like assembly line workers...
When I flew into North Korea, I felt as if I had landed in another galaxy. It was not just the spotless, carless streets, the loudspeakers broadcasting propaganda at dawn, the faceless groups of people filing silently from Kim Il Sung Stadium to Kim Il Sung University to Kim Il Sung Higher Party School (all with badges of Kim Il Sung on their hearts); it was, even more, the spooky unreality of a country that was building a 105-story tourist hotel while allowing almost no tourists, and showing off an Olympic stadium for the Games that were never held...
...least to know how much salt to sprinkle on their slogans, and its leader, up against his ninth American President, is canny enough to adapt a little to the times. While Cuban official billboards occasionally note how "Pride" in the Revolution has led to "Upset" and "Disenchantment," North Korean propaganda manuals are still churning out sentences like "Korea has large amounts of slime in Lake Sijung and other places, which is very effective against diseases...
...care about, the assumptions of the world. Yet Cuba, whose destiny has been entwined with ours for almost a century, is deserving of our respect and our sympathy. For three decades now, the U.S. has been Castro's greatest ally, allowing him to turn each bungled assault into a propaganda victory and to present himself, with some justification, as a resolute David standing up to a bullying Goliath. Now Washington has the rare chance to do with Havana what it could scarcely do with Pyongyang, which is to go the master mischiefmaker one step better -- and help 11 million hungry...
...winds down the tree where he had sought refuge. "They are a souvenir of all the problems in Rwanda," she says. Augustin Makama, a Tutsi exile who has just returned from Uganda, does not entirely dismiss the reports of Tutsi reprisals in the countryside. Most of the stories are propaganda, he says -- and pauses. "Some, I don't know. What might someone do if he meets the man who killed his children...