Word: view
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...instead of acknowledging that he had gone too far, Gore resorted to Clinton's view that the meaning of words is created after their expression by the speaker and that the explicit dictionary meaning is to be viewed as the untrustworthy, subjective response of the listeners. He said he "did not mean to imply that there should ever be any kind of inquiry into the personal political opinions of the officers. That is not what I meant to convey--that's what you heard." Whatever happened to, "I spoke too quickly in debate. After sober reflection, I see that...
Burton has said that this debate is all about "lemonade and buttons." To a large extent, he is correct. Questions of campaign spending and student group relations have been framed in such mundane terms. Perhaps Burton has a simplistic view of his "offenses," perhaps not. But this discussion should not involve race. It has been said that the council plays too many political games. My hope is that they refuse to deal the race card...
...team can also view the win as a suitable warmup to a big weekend. The Crimson's record now stands at 6-1 heading into this weekend's games against No.1 Pennsylvania and Princeton. The women's team also has the opportunity to clinch the Ivy League Championship with wins the weekend...
...Rocker's is an archaic vision of America, inherently exclusionary and intolerant of "diversity." But it is a vision that was widely entertained a generation or two back. A village view, so to speak. Now we live in a different country. Is it a better country? In some ways, yes. In many ways, no. The mainstreaming of drugs, guns, pornography and raw cultural sewage is not much of an improvement. For all the genius of our technology, there is loose in the land an ambient moral stupidity born of a fatal old overemphasis on "feelings," as in the Rocker sanction...
...world of Internet hacking, as in the world of rap music, there is the old school, and then there are the insurgents. The former tends to view the latter with some suspicion, and perhaps a bit of jealousy. Such was the case Wednesday; establishment hackers are up in arms over the media attention paid to Monday and Tuesday's attacks on Yahoo, eBay, CNN and Buy.com. "We find that there are already ample words in the English language to describe such miscreants and call upon the media to define them by their actions, as they are all we know them...