Word: context
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...also find a revealing look at Hillary Rodham Clinton by Karen Tumulty and Nancy Gibbs, with exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs by Diana Walker. It helps, I hope, put not only the First Lady but also her marriage and her husband into a human context. For a while, as you may have read (we're not great at keeping secrets), she was our leading contender. Her strength and her almost surreal ability to assert her dignity were remarkable to some and mystifying to others. She also, for many months, helped determine how the nation framed the scandal debate by portraying...
That's just one example of how Microsoft has become its own worst enemy in this trial. Another, of course, is Gates' famously evasive videotaped testimony. Until now, Microsoft has rapped the feds for taking "snippets" of its CEO's comments out of context. But on Monday, Gates changed tack, accusing Boies of asking deliberately "ambiguous questions" and then sandbagging Microsoft by airing the tapes. If he'd known they were going to be played in court, Gates said, he would have "smiled a little...
...legal team now has the rights to the Gates videotape--and can show it in its entirety at any time. "If they want to make it available for rent at Blockbuster, they can do it," confirms Georgetown University law professor Bill Kovacic. "But I doubt there's much context there that will help." All of which may explain why Boies is still smiling--no matter how many states are on his side...
...discuss them in the public arena. Nothing could be more democratic or more American. When we put our hands up and refuse to discuss the implications of the actions of immoral individuals--on the grounds that individual rights are more vital to the functioning of American democracy than context specific values--we do our country and our children a disservice...
...trails, so he rushed back to Austin to begin writing. "This story evolved in a perfect way," he says. "We researched a good idea for months, and when a news peg finally came, we were able to seize on it, offering readers the latest information along with a rich context in which...