Egypt enters 2013 facing two interlocking crises: one political, one economic.
But many Americans today seem to share one or more of a set of interlocking assumptions: 1) no white people are Muslims; 2) every black or brown person is potentially a Muslim, even if they say otherwise; 3) every Muslim is a threat to the U.S., and/or Judeo-Christian people, and/or white people.
Compare Facebook's interlocking approach with one of Silicon Valley's most long-lived and dominant success stories: Google.
"The Gangster We Are All Looking For" is told in five interlocking stories, each one composed of a series of brief, sharply drawn vignettes.
The spiky contours of the characters, prey to reversals that can cause them to change course with disarming speed, are intact, as is the interlocking story of one marriage coming undone as another is being manufactured.
Rogers spins his tale with twenty-one interlocking characters (played by fourteen actors), and it turns out to be a wildly suspenseful and sometimes dangerous ride.
Look no further than the festival's climactic end show: a carefully choreographed spectacle of fireworks, smoke machines, lasers and lighting effects (last year set against a backdrop of two interlocking dragons, which one YouTube user astutely observes "looks like a god-like gate to an empire!").
The DNA thus passes two interlocking gates, only one of which can be open at any time.
The investigation in this sense has not turned up evidence that the same groups were responsible for all those plots but rather that there is a kind of interlocking terrorist directorate, with one group taking the baton from another, and one group's goals becoming those of the next group.
There are five interlocking Olympic rings, not one, Kim said, meaning all the countries who participate in the Olympics, not just American and European countries, should have an opportunity to be host to the Games.
