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I was in a dinette in Tokyo owned by Mikiyo Kono, a small man who has been in the restaurant business 30 years. When we first arrived, he was quite quiet. When I began to talk to him about the rights and wrongs of whaling, its diminutive chef exploded. Now I don't speak much Japane. My colleague was translating for me, but I didn't need to be fluent to understand the extent of Mr. Kono's anger and frustration at tho who try to stop the Japane whaling. He ranted and raged on and on, chopping his outstretched hands through the air vigorously as he made his points, 'What about lambs?' He asked. 'You people eat lambs. We think lambs are cute,but we don't try to stop you eating them.'
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Once the interview was over, he insisted I try some whale mylf. The look I got from my Japane colleagues suggested that 'No, it's not an option.' In truth, I was curious. I chewed the raw whale. It wasn't great, but it wasn't awful either. The stir-fried whale was better, but not something I would want to eat again in a hurry. Not becau of any ethical ob
jections, more, becau of its very strong flavor,which was only somewhat disguid by the sweetened saur sauce. Tho Japane who support whaling believe that all western journalists throughout to get them. That means you have to do whatever you can to try to counter that impression, if you were to have any chance of conveying their points of view to the wider world. It was clear that eating Mr. Kono's whale have been a fact to mollifying him. Perhaps I wasn't out to stitch him up after all.
The whaling industry here is backed by a small minority of Japane, a part of the establishment which shouts loudly there, and likes to frame the as a hue of sovereignty, what right about the nations to tell us what we can and can't eat. The campaigners have powerful friends in politics and in the media. The debate over the rights and wrongs of whaling gets little coverage in the papers here. The boarding of a Japane whaler by two environmental activists this week did make it onto the news bulletins, but many Japane journalists cho to brand the two men “Environmental Terrorists'. And as far as I'm aware, no politician has yet been brave enough to stand up a
nd question whether or not prerving the whaling industry is worth the damage does to Japan's reputation overas. The unfortunate bureaucrats in the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo who are required to defend whaling on our channels and the of other broadcasters often have made quietly once the camera switched off and the microphone unplugged. But this is not a subject they warm to. Their frustration is not directed at the interviewers, who all too often give them a roistering, demanding they defend what too many is indefensible. It's their fellow pen-pushers of the fishery's ministry who are making life difficult for them, by continuing to prop up a whaling industry that sullies the good name of Japan around the world.
Words and Phras
dinette检查结果
(especially AmE) a small room or part of a room for eating meals
diminutive
A diminutive person or object is very small.
outstretched
outstretched
If a part of the body of a person or animal is outstretched, it is stretched out as far as possible.
mollify
If you mollify someone, you do or say something to make them less upt or angry. (FORMAL)
stitch up
To stitch someone up means to trick them so that they are put in a difficult or unpleasant situation, especially one where they are blamed for something they have not done.
sovereignty
Sovereignty is the power that a country has to govern itlf or another country or state.
pen-pusher
牙疼都是什么原因引起的If you call someone a pen-pusher, you mean that their work consists of writing or dealing with documents, and does not em very uful or important. (BRIT; in AM u pencil pusher)
prop up
To prop up something means to support it or help it to survive.
日本推油按摩sully
to spoil or lower the value of sth: By cheating they have sullied the good name of their country.
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And they are off. Running for president can often em like a marathon. But starting right now, it's a sprint. In just over one month from January 3rd through February 5th, more than 30 states, nearly 2/3 of the states in the Union will hold either primary elections or so-called caucus—the first step in electing a president. And by the evening of February 5th, Super Tuesday, enough votes will have been cast that we could, could know who the nominee will be from each party. But first, Republican and Democratic candidates for president must go through one of the most complicated process in American politics—primaries.
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The whole idea of primaries and caucus is to win as many delegates as possible who will be nt to each party's national convention this summer. The delegates choo their party's nominee. Most states conduct primary elections. Voters simply go to the polls and cast their votes for the candidate of their choice, in the party of their choice. Others u the caucus system that began back in the 1700s. In fact, the word "caucus" is believed by
some authorities to come from a native American-Indian language. It means gathering of tribal chiefs. Basically, it's a meeting with neighbors and friends where you declare your support of a given candidate. The Democrats' approach is more convoluted than the Republicans'. Some candidates' websites even feature video guides explaining how it works. "It's Thursday, January 3rd, 2008. Joe wakes up happy, becau today is caucus day, and Joe is a precinct captain for John Edwards. The first thing you do once you are inside the caucus room is find your precinct captain." "They'll reprent the Obama campaign, right? -- Right!"
The first caucus in the nation are in Iowa, January 3rd. Just five days later is the New Hampshire primary .They are both small states. They don't have a lot of delegates to the national convention, so why do they get so much attention? Becau they are first and they are first becau they are small, relatively cheap to campaign in and give less well-known candidates a chance to compete. The results in Iowa and New Hampshire will be put under the microscope by political pundits. The margin of victory and how it's interpret
ed becomes almost as important as the actual results. For instance, what if Hillary Clinton wins but just by 2 points? What if Mitt Romney los to a candidate with far less money?
This year, veral other states jealous about the attention and campaign advertising money that Iowa and New Hampshire get decided to move up the dates of their own primaries. That's why this primary ason is so compresd. Primaries and caucus in nine states up to February 1st.Then what some are calling Super Duper Tuesday, February 5th, when primaries and caucus will be held in a total of 24 states. It takes a lot of organization and a lot of money to run in 24 states at the same time. And that favors front runners.
Political experts say by the time Super Tuesday draws to a clo, February 5th. It could be clear who Democrats are likely to choo at their convention. The Republican race at this point ems less clear, but they warn: this is a very fluid election campaign, and we are still far from the finish line.
Jude Dougherty, CNN, Washington.
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Take an individual and expo them for long enough to the right techniques to subtle and not-so-subtle persuasion. And experts say the human brain can be reprogrammed. In other words, our individual can be brainwashed.
"Society doesn't really know what it is that they're dealing with, they don’t really understand this force, and the potency of the force."竭泽而渔的近义词
Professor Benjamin Zablocki is one of the world’s foremost experts on brainwashing.
"It's enormously effective in changing the individual, and creating what is known as a deployable agent. Deployable agent is the word that we u to describe an individual who will do anything that he or she is told to do by the group or by the group leader."
Professor Zablocki says the techniques perfected over many years by religious cults are now being increasingly ud by Islamist groups to radicalize their new recruits.
Persuading individuals to sacrifice their own lives in the name of religion is far from easy. It can, Professor Zablocki says, take many months, even years.
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Ashraf ul Hoque is painfully familiar with the techniques of the brainwasher. A former radical Islamist, he is now an academic, rearching radicalization.
"If somebody comes along and says, well, you know, there is a reason why your life isn't so good. And this is the reason, and this is what you have to do about it. This is what you have to do about it is where the indoctrination comes into place. Cau then they u scripture, and their charisma esntially to guide this individual."
A breaking free of their control, he says, is extremely difficult.
"When that's coming from authority, which is backed up by God in the eyes of the youth, he is not gonna, or she is not gonna disagree with it, becau I think, well, this is, this is t
he way."
