Sunday, July 08, 2007

Fill In The Blank

Before you click this NYT link, fill in the blanks below.
_______, July 2 — _______ _______, only __ and already a _______, sat at a desk and quizzed each young person who sat opposite her, testing for ideological fitness to participate in summer camp. “Tell me, what achievements of _______’s policy can you name?” she asked, referring to _______’s president since 20__, ______ _. _______. “Well, it’s the stabilization in the economy,” the girl answered. “Pensions were raised.” ...

_______, which translates as “_______,” has since its creation two years ago become a disciplined and lavishly funded instrument of Mr. _______’s campaign for political control before _______ elections in _______ and a presidential election _______ _______.
It has organized mass marches in support of __. _______ — most recently gathering tens of thousands of young people in _______ to send the president text messages — and staged rowdy demonstrations over foreign policy issues that resulted in the physical harassment of the _______ and _______ _______ here. Its main role, though, is the ideological cultivation — some say indoctrination — of today’s youth, the first generation to come of age in post-_______ _______.
What country do you think the NYT is writing about? What country could it be writing about and during what period? Does it make you think at all of this, or this, or this?

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