Word: framework
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...alone in dark rooms, one hopes the College would take notice. And if students were doing so because they were frustrated with the lack of other options available to them, one hopes that there would be an administrator whose job it would be to realize this and provide a framework for students to choose other types of social interaction. Students don't want their social lives to be handed to them by the College, but they deserve an adequate structure on which healthy student life can be built...
Rather than argue from the same stalemated positions, Americans ought to read Randall Robinson's new book, "The Debt, What America Owes to Blacks" (Dutton, 262 pages, $23.95) - an extraordinarily eloquent work that places the reparations discussion in the larger historical framework of 246 years of slavery and another hundred years of Jim Crow and racial discrimination. Robinson, president of TransAfrica (which did much to fight apartheid, among other battles), declares: "...the black holocaust is far and away the most heinous human rights crime visited upon any group of people in the world over the last five hundred years." Elie...
...every time through the cycle, Gomes says, the framework of debate shifts. Eventually, the question of social equality for gays will "go where the race question has long since gone...
Within this framework, director/screenwriter Scott Hicks (working from the prize-winning novel by David Guterson) creates a fascinating meditation on cultural misunderstanding. We watch as the Japanese and Caucasian children of San Piedro Island are taught the lessons demanded by their respective cultures--lessons which are well-intended, but which ensure that the schism between their peoples will endure. In the days immediately following Pearl Harbor, the island becomes a hotbed of racism. Local authorities haul the Japanese residents off to internment camps--an act which serves to justify the anti-white attitudes held by Hatsue's mother...
...more conducive environment for a week of diplomacy, State Department spokesman James Rubin said Monday that the two sides had not yet agreed on the agenda for the talks. Syria wants to begin with territorial issues; Israel wants the first item to be its security requirements. While the principle framework for a peace agreement involves Israel returning the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace, normalization of relations and ironclad security guarantees, the devilish details keep a deal tantalizingly out of reach...