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However, with a vibrant grassroots culture and the growing confidence of an independent nation, it defies the advertising stereotype of the “deserted island. ”
The trouble was that while "heroic rebel defies orthodoxy" is a story so good that nobody even tries to check it out, "guy makes minor contribution to well-established field, proclaims himself its founder" is so boring as to be unpublishable.
Over the decades, the agencies and the rules surrounding the intelligence community have accumulated to a depth that practically defies public comprehension.
Second, disagree as one might with the highhanded approach taken by the Oakland Unified School District, the linguistic challenge confronting urban schools defies armchair comprehension.
An ethnic and territorial conflict that doesn't have much to do with globalization at all, the war in Kosovo defies Friedman's notion that international relations is now an extension of international economics.