Americans come and go, but India will be there forever, and deeply ingrained in the Pakistani security establishment are the beliefs first, that India is the real enemy, and second, that to remain safe from it, Pakistan needs the "strategic depth" of a friendly Afghan neighbour.
There would be Nets shots penetrating the basket at an uncommonly frequent rate; there would be chemistry, symmetry and unity ingrained in the home team's offensive execution; and there would be an opponent that overdosed on haplessness shortly before the opening tip-off.
But, because the casual use of the words: "retard," "retarded" and the suffix "-tard" have now become so deeply and passively ingrained in the contemporary vernacular?
The first is abstract and well ingrained in the American psyche: the negative association of "green" technologies with inefficiency and idealistic, hippie-fueled impracticality.
With inexpensive, low-power processing and storage becoming more available, we can expect computation to move even closer to the edge and become ingrained in the same devices that are generating the data, creating even greater possibilities for inter-device intelligence and interactions.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who Manji-described Muslim leaders consider heretical, was founded on an interpretation of Islam that is practical, peaceful, and wholly ingrained in the whole of the Quran.
Those who accuse Olmert of potentially offering compromises deemed detrimental to Israel's national security for the sake of his legacy are not acknowledging the complex system of checks and balances ingrained in the Israeli political system.
