After all, if fat tolerance is the true goal here, why not cast rabidly anti-fat people into the fat suits instead of women who appear clearly sympathetic to fat discrimination?

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The election in Greece on May 6th is unpredictable, and a strong showing by anti-austerity parties could cast doubt on Greeks' commitment to reforms.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Mr Hagen, meanwhile, has both pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment and cast himself as the defender of the creaking but familiar welfare, education and health systems: in sum, here is the defender of the Norwegian way of life.

ECONOMIST: Norway's politics

When the diabolical Chiche, the head of a vast capitalist conspiracy, plots colossal acts of anti-Soviet terrorism, the cast of characters heads to Leningrad to stop him.

NEWYORKER: Miss Mend

Mr Rossi, a 58-year-old lawyer, has cast himself as an anti-establishment outsider, despite a long political career that has featured stints as a federal congressman and as mayor of Osasco, an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo city, and has seen him switch parties four times and churches thrice (he is currently an evangelical Protestant).

ECONOMIST: Brazil

During Operation Cast Lead, Oslo was the scene of unprecedented anti-Semitic rioting.

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After an American missile destroyed the Saddam Tower (a telecommunications mast with a revolving restaurant), Mr Hussein had the pieces of the missile gathered up, melted down and then cast into agonised portraits of the leaders of the anti-Iraq coalition.

ECONOMIST: Monumental

Voter discontent surfaced on April 22, when nearly a fifth of the electorate cast ballots for far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who had campaigned on anti-immigration and protectionist proposals including doing away with the euro.

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Because the riots broke out in the late 1960s after the successes of the US anti-Vietnam War movement and the black civil rights movement, the organizations that emerged immediately after Stonewall were cast in a New Left mould, which also meant a militant consciousness.

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