Word: frames
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...recent years many critics have tried to frame Israel's struggle for independence as an exclusive and ruthless attempt to drive the Palestinian people off their land. However, the current attempts to reach a resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem and the current Palestinian-Israeli struggle must not blind us to the fact that the war of independence was not a war waged by the Jews in Palestine against a helpless local Arab population. Israel's war of independence was a war for existence and the events of that war must be placed in that context. Current concerns with...
Harvard struck back in the next frame, however. After Parrot (two hits, one RBI) sent a booming double to right-center field with two outs, freshman left fielder Aaron Kessler punched a single to right to plate...
...center of the catastrophe is Sarah Chandler (Francesca Delbanco), a kind of anti-heroine. After her children are quarantined, she flees London, only to be chased back because other towns fear the possibility of infection from a Londoner. When she returns to the empty frame of a house that once contained her family, her response is emotionless. Her frequently vacant stare makes Chandler strangely cold, an awkward position for a central female character...
...still at large. And Terry Nichols' role in the crime, if any, is still unclear. But Terry and his brother James do know McVeigh. According to residents of Decker, McVeigh spent some time in the area several months ago, living with James Nichols in his neat, two-story, white frame farmhouse. According to Randy Izydorek, 26, a neighbor and acquaintance of the Nichols', McVeigh "deals in guns and goes to a lot of gun shows. My dad and I have seen his car loaded down with them a couple of times." McVeigh, say officials, may have met Terry Nichols while...
...this is common stuff in many parts of the country. It is several giant steps from this movement to the extremist-fringe thinking that seems to have bred the Oklahoma City bombing. That frame of mind appeals to a hard-bitten and alienated segment of society that has found a voice lately in millennial movements like the Christian Patriots and the state "militias," largely in the Middle West and West. The militias may be--as they strongly claim to be-composed largely of yeoman states'--righters energized over the threat to the Second Amendment. But they have also fostered viciously...