Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Otempora! O mores! What can it mean when The Crimson argues for greater involvement by Harvard in students' personal lives, and the dean writes to argue the opposite viewpoint...
Today most Americans would say that those delegates got it backwards, but that viewpoint says more about how much the Senate has changed than it says about the framers' wisdom. When the framers chose the Senate to be the trier of presidential impeachments, they did not expect senators to be popularly elected, they did not foresee the ascendance of powerful political parties, and they may well have expected secrecy to be the norm in the Senate, as it was during its first six years...
...going after only certain dictators will be an arbitrary process. Also, if a nation approves a general amnesty for atrocities committed by one of its regimes, should a foreign judge be allowed to disrupt that nation's healing process? I don't think so. Otherwise, as Charles Krauthammer stated [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 14], a dictator's best protection will be never to give up power. EDUARDO ZAYAS-BAZAN Miami...
...about more than a battle between "good" and "bad" guys. Picard repeatedly warns against the historically proven dangers of forcibly relocating a group of people to serve the needs of another race. Moralistically, the one thing missing from this movie is the influence of the non-human, "rational" viewpoint--usually provided by Spock in the old Star Trek series and by the android Data (Brent Spiner) in the Next Generation. In this film, far from being a voice of reason, Data's chief role is as a malfunctioning robot on the rampage...
Your feature on Builders and Titans was about as international as the World Series (baseball, for you non-Americans). That narrow viewpoint was surprising in a magazine that normally provides a global outlook from an American perspective. If TIME aspires to be a truly international publication, it must look beyond the shores of the U.S. GRAHAM ROBERTS Singapore...