Word: framework
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...battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian police Monday left four Palestinians dead and a number of wounded on both sides in the worst violence since 1996. The outbreak follows protests demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and the passing of yet another deadline for a framework agreement on "final status" issues with a deal nowhere in sight. "These protests are partly an effort by Arafat to stoke the fires in the hope of bringing out the American fire brigade to put pressure on the Israelis," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad...
...constrained by facts. Facts are easily manipulated and never paint a full picture of a person or an event. There are too many blind spots, too many hidden motives. Fiction, by contrast, can fill in the gaps between the facts. It necessarily presents an impression, an over-arching framework that selects certain facts and disregards others. If it's fictional biography, it might not be true-but it will probably be a truer-to-life...
...Haven, Conn. and New Haven, Conn., existed on the ninth level of Hell, the resulting scenario would most likely resemble In Between O'Clock by Michael Ragozzino '01. IBOC, as the program refers to the play, attempts to explore the complexity of human identity within the framework of a world dominated by a linear fixation on the passage of time. In The Well, a bar so seedy that even the homeless avoid it, Matthew Circland (Jay Chaffin '01) must confront three alternate manifestations of himself from ages 12, 21 and 42 along with his father and ex-fianc; time...
...Similarly, another skit features a Framingham construction worker turned priest delivering a eulogy for a lost friend. It is no easy feat to accept a eulogy to a friend who has succumbed to AIDS when both religion and mourning are contexutalized in the larger framework of drag queens and lost penises. Is the priest mocking those who have lost friends to the virus or those who have turned to God in their final months on earth...
...stakes are high in this argument. State curriculum frameworks need to be written, and these serve as basis for assessment tests; some of the reformers receive substantial educational research grants, consulting fees or textbook royalties. For now, the reformers have lost the battle in California. They are redoubling their efforts in Massachusetts, where the curriculum framework is being revised. The struggle is fierce, by academic standards...