Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foist upon someone, anyone, with this sequence, especially since the cruelty of the slave trade is never at issue in any of the trials. As soon as the Africans start having legal difficulties, the film shifts to make a sham out of the American judicial system. The very framework which winds up championing the Africans' cause with morality and persuasiveness is portrayed, in turn, as incompetent, overly bureaucratic and corrupt, to further sympathy for the Africans. The audience was so drowned in their white liberal guilt by the end that they seemed almost disappointed when the American system proved...
Thomas B. Cotton '98 makes the mistake of identifying a certain type of dialogue as uniquely legitimate in the framework of deliberate democracy ("Habermas Has Descended," Column, Dec. 5). According to Cotton, only those individuals who are capable of excluding their own passions and interests from their expressed opinions and who are able to achieve some kind of objective conception of the common good should be allowed to participate in that dialogue. For the rest of us, we are left to decide who the participants in that dialogue should be based on our assessments of the quality and the content...
...says that there is a competitiveness among American religious communities for members as well as an infusion of democracy into their framework...
History? Yes--within the Ivy League. But within a slightly larger framework, (gasp! you mean there is one?) what does Harvard's 17-7 victory over Yale mean? What is impressive about the football team is not that it made statistic history within a rigorous academic circle that does not play football very well; rather, this season's and every season's impressiveness lies in the fact that students who tackle the scholastic challenges of both Harvard and Yale can also play football as well as they...
...have a very structured relationship," says Kalish of Prentiss. Kalish says mentorship programs are helpful, but that a similar mentoring structure can be achieved outside of the established framework...