Word: view
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...board flatness of Texas's High Plains, Lockney, Texas, is about as far removed from inner-city gangs and violence as is possible to get in the lower forty-eight. The nearest city with an airport, Lubbock, is, as the song says, a place best observed from a rear view mirror. Not much happens in these parts. That's the way most people want it. Populated with deeply religious people who like their religion like they like their barbecue sauce--fiery and covering everything--the west Texas Panhandle is one of the last notches on the Bible Belt...
...that view is wildly skewed. The Vikings were indeed raiders, but they were also traders whose economic network stretched from today's Iraq all the way to the Canadian Arctic. They were democrats who founded the world's oldest surviving parliament while Britain was still mired in feudalism. They were master metalworkers, fashioning exquisite jewelry from silver, gold and bronze. Above all, they were intrepid explorers whose restless hearts brought them to North America some 500 years before Columbus...
...Political analysts see it that way, because the way the investigation was conducted by the conservative-controlled legal system raised a lot of questions. It certainly didn't conform to the way these things have been handled in the past in Iran, and close observers of the political process view it as a politicized issue between the two factions. For ordinary Iranians, though, even those following the domestic power struggle, the trial is less of an issue...
...would hope that Critchley does not intend to mock AIDS victims, but the larger point behind this skit is unclear. The omnipresent stag banner decorated with condoms in the sign of a deflated male symbol is clever, but nonetheless its continued presence in every scene makes it impossible to view any skit as possessing serious intention...
...able to play-act as courts of law. These subcommittees have the power to forever tarnish students with a judgment of a serious offense, but they do not currently give students the opportunity to retain independent representation or to cross-examine witnesses, rights that all free societies view as essential to fair procedure. When faced with serious offenses, university disciplinarians should reserve their judgment for the issues of punishment that they are competent to decide, and leave the fact-finding to the courts...