Word: view
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...competence of the prosecution, or to call for a Justice Department investigation, or even to empathize with outraged citizens," the statement reads. "This is also a moment for leaders to teach Americans about the continuing power of color in the lives of average people. We share the somber view of many that had Diallo been a European immigrant in a white neighborhood, he would be alive and unharmed today...
Although Clinton often mentioned that India has many of the world's poor, he rarely saw them. So sanitized was the President's view that many Indians wondered whether he was too optimistic in his assessment of India's potential for progress and, by extension, for the prospect of improved Indo-U.S. relations. But Clinton has always been an optimist. What better trait for someone who wants to be a peacemaker...
...precisely when words fail that pictures like his are most needed. Some of them are obscene in one literal sense of that word--from ob scena, Latin for offstage--the sights to be kept from the view of the audience. In the parts of the world where Nachtwey does his work, public affairs have become not much more than a subdepartment of the larger human impulse toward bloodlust. People are regularly dismembered and disfigured. Their arms are blown off, their teeth are broken, and they are starved. "I am trying to upset people," Nachtwey said recently. "I am trying...
...this way, cancer is stopped before it begins. I believe that the knowledge that screening can prevent this deadly cancer from ever getting a start is a more powerful motivator than the hope that it might be found early enough to be curable. This different, even more optimistic view ought to be shared with your readers. ERNESTINE HAMBRICK, M.D. Founder and Chairman STOP Colon/Rectal Cancer Foundation Chicago...
...course no one should be shot for pulling a wallet from his pocket, as Diallo was. But look at the incident from a policeman's point of view. If we are going to put a cop on the street late at night in an area of the city known to have a high crime rate, he has the right to protect himself without fearing that if he does react to a threat he will be put in jail. I sympathize with the Diallo family, but I also feel for the police officers, who put their lives on the line each...