Iranians around the world are intelligent, passionate, kind and unfortunately the Western world has the wrong image of them.
In the background, a video shows the fall of the World Trade Center and an image of Osama bin Laden.
As the brain does not have direct contact with the world, but only an image of the world on the retina which is ambiguous, it has to call on the statistics of how it behaved in the past to understand how to behave in the future.
Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock prints, translates as an "image of the floating world, " and the scent does seem to evoke an image for me of irises floating in a secluded lake.
It is about the capacity of fundamentalists to insist the the world conform to their own image of themselves.
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And then, as I grew into adulthood and began my own explorations into the bigger world, my image retreated to the hermetic world of an envelope in a desk drawer .
Hours later, the world woke up to the image of a masked man on the balcony of the Olympic Village.
What has arisen for elites is social enterprise as the solution, a remaking of the world in the image that has made them successful.
The destruction of the World Trade Centre was a terrible, depraved, large-scale mirror image of what is already the experience of many outside the developed world: people, going about their normal business, being obliterated out of the blue by the planned, hostile actions of others.
When I gave a TEDGlobal talk on femto photography in June, I began with a reference to Doc Edgerton, a very popular MIT professor of electrical engineering who, in 1964, wowed the world with an image of a bullet in midair, having just passed through an apple.
On nearly every issue, the president and others from his administration (not to mention the media) lecture us on the need to be sensitive to the feelings and self-image of the Muslim world.
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If her technique is hardly more than that of a home movie, her strategy is complex: the myth of the unimpeachable innocence of wild children against an uncaring world converges with the public image that Le Besco, the actress, projects.
For many around the world, including investors, Darfur blights the image of Sudan's capital like the mark of Cain.
But another extremely challenging task facing the Bush administration is the need to improve the image of the United States around the world, a task made more difficult by allegations of prisoner abuse that have put the Bush administration on the defensive.
When he became president in 1913, he boasted that he could transform Latin America, if not the rest of the world, into constitutional democracies in America's image.
He was the first rock star to tap the inner rebel in America's (and much of the world's) teenagers, an image that still resonates with the young crowd today.
The hype of Davos does not present a desired image to the world...something is wrong.
So when presented with any image of the world, what we see is what would have been useful to see in the past.
Only one channel came in, and on it was an image of the World Trade Center, a billow of smoke streaming out of its side.
The image of the world's most famous disabled athlete back on his unmistakable running blades was likely now to become more and more common again.
Cultural inertia often stands in the way of those politicians who aspire to remake the world in their own ideological image.
Hovering over this crepuscular world is the ever-present image of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, the diminutive, shambling, designer sunglasses-wearing despot who according to official sources combines national leadership with the roles of philosopher, writer, opera composer, film director and world-class golfer.
In the first experiment the researchers established that, after viewing an image of an airplane flying into one of the World Trade Center towers, liberals and conservatives held opposing attitudes toward the ground zero mosque and community center.
Its businesses have played a critical role in setting the tone for Spain's image abroad and the pace of its involvement around the world.
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The thing that motivated me to do the Million Man March was the image of young black men that was portrayed around the world showing black men with colorful bandanas on their head and shotguns in their hand.
In that speech he made some promises concerning Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Middle East peace process, of course, about changing the American image in the Muslim world.
However, the combination of Hilton's personal image with the holiest city in the Muslim world has riled some in the conservative kingdom.
Thursday's announcement promises to change the image of battlefields around the world, as debate rages on whether women can fight like men.
Chavez's image in the world is that of a highly distasteful leader.
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Upsetting to many Indonesians is the image now spread around the world of a country in turmoil - when it has just come peacefully through a second democratic election, and has been maintaining economic growth despite the world downturn.
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