Jane Mayer gives a primer on Egypt's new vice-president, Omar Suleiman, and his history with the C.I.A.'s war-on-terror renditions.
The HBO series "Treme" gave a primer to people who had no idea what a second line was.
Initially, we're given a primer on the mere plot of "The Tempest," largely by means of dumb show.
Under the solicitous gaze of a star Goldman investment banker, John L. Thornton, the bureaucrats were fed, cosseted, and given a primer on how to privatize their vast state-owned corporations.
The liberal political-action group Democracy for America gave a primer on turning online activism into offline activism, by developing networks of supporters and sending out "action alerts" to get them to contribute money and volunteer for campaigns and causes.
The host also looks at how vehicles are likely to change in the next few years, giving a primer on the workings of hybrid gas-electric powertrains, fuel cells, integrated navigation aids and devices that will bring the Internet, including e-mail, into the passenger cabin.
The article, appearing in the season of Easter and Passover, gave a primer on the history of the war between religious and secular ideas in Western culture going back to Copernicus.
In a dozen new phone applications, whether faith-based or faith-bashing, the prospective debater is given a primer on the basic rules of engagement — how to parry the circular argument, the false dichotomy, the ad hominem attack, the straw man — and then coached on all the likely flashpoints of contention.
Historian Daniel Kevles of Yale University gave a primer on the eugenics movement, and its popularity in the United States long before the rise of the Nazis, its most notorious enthusiasts.
Adam gives a primer on how the pirates swap their "warez" (rhymes with hairs), changing their names to protect the "innocent" and explaining to the uninitiated how a CD makes its way through the back channels of the net.
