Word: view
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...Public Enemy proclaimed hip-hop the "Black CNN," and even original gangsta rappers NWA said "it's not about a salary it's all about reality..." Does this still hold true? What's happened to the "bearing witness" side of hip-hop? And how do the more mainstream artists view those like Mos Def, Common, the Roots, KRS One, Black Eyed Peas etc. - the acts that arise in every generation who rededicate themselves to the core values of the socially conscious rappers of the early years - are they the conscience of the hip-hop nation...
Some might view the MIT settlement as an indication that colleges and universities will clamp down on student social life in an unnecessarily harsh fashion. On the contrary, the settlement is merely a reaffirmation of a basic principle that institutions of higher learning are responsible for student safety. To this end, we hope that recent settlement will force other institutions to critically examine their own policies and attitudes, so that a similar tragedy will never happen again...
...though. After snapping some pictures on a Kodak digital camera, I plugged it into my PC. A few seconds later, up pops a window displaying every image in the camera. I could view them in slide-show format, click on the ones I liked, then either save them to my hard drive or attach them to an e-mail...
...investigate at last the matter of his parents, and at this point the tone of Ishiguro's novel changes abruptly. Gone is the precise realism of The Remains of the Day, replaced by the phantasmagoric fugue state that governed his subsequent novel, The Unconsoled (1995). Assuming that Banks' view of the world around him is correct, if constrained, the reader must now start wondering whether he has, without warning, completely lost his mind...
...begins with the selection process. Medical school admissions committees look for winners: the highest GPAs, the highest scores on the Medical College Admissions Test, the most glowing reports about undergraduate achievements. They like to see stratospheric numbers and florid adjectives. In view of this emphasis, it is a wonder that they manage to admit as many idealistic young people to the profession as they do. But there are not enough, and every one of these students wants to be a man or woman who knows how to triumph over great odds. When the time comes to lose, as it inevitably...