Identity crisis behind China's Xinjiang unrest: experts Beijing (AFP) July 04, 2013 Beijing's propaganda portrays the vast and remote western region of Xinjiang as a harmonious land of colourful, mostly Muslim Uighur natives and hard-working migrants prospering under Communist Party rule. But two incidents last week, one of which left 35 people dead, are only the latest spasms of violence to call into question that idealised vision. China's ...
July 4, 2013 - Space War
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in Brisbane Times No, but the balance is slightly too much for sport,Kruszelnicki says. "I love that in Australia we have lots of sports but the Greeks were right when they [idealised] a healthy mind and a healthy body."
Tracey Thorn in The Guardian I think people have an idealised sense of our life,says Thorn. "Because we've lived and worked together for so many years they think we're skipping hand-in-hand through a hedgerow. I just think, Christ, surely you can imagine that on a...
Desmond Tutu in Independent Online Tutu said people wanted their leader to have charisma, to be regal and dignified, and "expressing the best about their idealised corporate consciousness and identity".