As news of the slaughter spread, the country was convulsed by the most hideous pogrom in its history, a wave of anti-Tamil violence so extreme that observers reached back to the horrors that accompanied India's partition, in 1947, for a fitting comparison.
At one extreme are recipient observers, defined as individuals who mostly interact with their country fellows and take in new ideas and practices only by observing the world around them, reading the papers, and watching television.
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While the study will be seen as a cause for great concern, it is the figure for the increase in extreme drought that some observers find most frightening.
He wrote his history of the short 20th century (1914-1991), "The Age of Extremes", as a "participant observer", marvelling that he could have come through the most absurd and monstrous century in human history feeling, for the most part, happy.
Did I want to experience the "phenomenology" of extreme hoarding as an inquiring observer or to intimately compare myself against a true big-timer, to sound out our solidarities, find fellowship and insight?
Right before the Justice Department filed its brief, three career attorneys removed their names from the filing ― a highly unusual move that, many legal observers speculated, signaled extreme discomfort with the government's argument.
"To put it in perspective, we looked at every single option open to us, even extreme measures such as closing the Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.
The mood, says an observer, is one of extreme caution and "even moderate groups do not want to appear to be supporting Taseer's cause".
To an observer this may stir enough extreme emotion that they wish to restrain or control the woman, even though it is against the rules and is wrong".
