Word: interpretational
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Today Indians are looking to their own oral histories, as well as reading between the lines of the journals, to re-interpret what happened. Says Ben Sherman, president of the Western American Indian Chamber in Denver: "The upcoming events portray Clark as the benevolent protector of Indians--that's propagandist baloney." The tragic aftermath: as Governor of the Missouri Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Clark presided over President Thomas Jefferson's land-grab policy, which some historians characterize as a direct cause of "cultural genocide" and "ethnic cleansing...
...someone who wants to change the world, this approach makes perfect sense. The effort to build coalitions and implement new policies is fundamentally an effort to deal with people and not with arguments; the goal is not to interpret the world, but to change...
...abstract” or “academic,” but when it comes to the “urgent needs of the hour,” they are anything but unrelated. If we hope to change the world for the better, we must learn to interpret it first...
...Yasin has publicly rejected terrorism and violence, and said that Hamas is not fronting HLF,” he continues. “That is not the same as saying he publicly rejects Hamas and Al Qaeda, though you may interpret it that way. Many people, unfortunately, play with the meaning of words...
...instantly into a flaming hulk, killing 16 aboard. Israel retaliated by sending tanks back into the West Bank city of Jenin and the offices of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Hours later they left, after blowing up three buildings in the compound. And while it may be premature to interpret the Megiddo attack as the opening volley of an Armageddon, the carnage there, and the response it triggered, serves as a sharp reminder that the violent impasse that forced the Bush administration reluctantly off the sidelines in April has yet to be resolved...