Word: interpretative
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Devotees rely on a variety of methods to interpret their dreams and arrive at that stage of enlightenment known in dreamwork circles as "aha!" One popular technique is re-creating the vision as a drawing or collage. Many groups favor a method devised by Psychiatrist Montague Ullman of Ardsley, N.Y., in which one member relates a dream to the others; listeners then respond by expressing how it makes them feel. In analyzing their visions, dreamworkers often find solutions to their problems. Indeed, says San Francisco's Delaney, nighttime images are a "reflection of your own mind considering challenges that...
...know how Robert Bork claims the Constitution should be interpreted. Better to ask now what that tells us about how Robert Bork and those of like mind interpret America and whether that interpretation is one that fits and honors our traditions and aspirations as a nation...
...very need for such legal challenges, however, is a reminder that inequities remain, decisions can be reversed, and statutes can be repealed. "We are at the mercy of a Supreme Court that will interpret equality as it sees fit," says Friedan. Feminists feel the court opened the floodgates to unfair treatment of female students when in February 1984 the Justices $ defanged a law that could be used to stop all federal aid to a school if sex discrimination was shown in any of its education programs, including sports. Legislation that would effectively restore a broad application...
...Original intent has a strong gravitational pull," acknowledges Columbia Law Professor Henry Monaghan. But how specific an intent are we looking for? Today's interpreters of the Constitution, for example, would never tolerate the brutality of the criminal punishments that were prevalent 200 years ago -- brandings, say, or the puncturing of nostrils. Notes Federal Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman: "I regard reliance on original intent to be a largely specious mode of interpretation. I often find it instructive to consult the framers when I am called upon to interpret the Constitution. But it is the beginning of my inquiry...
...interpret the election...