Word: broader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have made up their mind quickly that the officers were innocent. That left much of the rest of the country wondering how the evidence of their own eyes could not have been sufficient for the jury in Simi Valley, ! Calif. But this trial hinged on matters both narrower and broader than that shocking bit of videotape. The narrow ones were fine points of law that jurors must decide upon, such as what constitutes reasonable doubt and just how much force is permitted under the procedural guidelines of the Los Angeles police department. The broader matter was race, the inescapable factor...
...some point everybody has to hold hands and jump into the water." The diplomats in Geneva may find their job easier if they recognize that any lengthy negotiation reaches a point where the best becomes the enemy of the good. But they will also be aided by a broader constituency aware of what it all means for them...
Basically, Gates' project is to offer a defense of multicultural curricula and Afro-American studies programs. But in broader, no-less-successful terms, he seeks to explore two questions: What is a national identity? How does cultural pluralism fit into such an identity...
Institutions will always exist, Gates tells us. It must be our task to change them and shape them to include the reconstituted subjective experiences of a broader range of people. "The choice is not between institutions and no institutions," he says. "The choice is always: What kind of institutions will there...
...foreign crisis on the horizon, conventional wisdom holds that the state of the economy will decide the election. If so, Bush's personal shortcomings may be irrelevant. Even if Bush were shown to be guilty of all the things Bill Clinton has been accused of, there is a broader context in which the incumbent would be judged. But as the President's record comes under more scrutiny, his performance in office could become as much of a problem for him as unmentioned induction letters and uninhaled joints have been for Bill Clinton...