Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Historiographers (an ugly-sounding word for historians of history) are coming round to the view that history consists of little more than a series of consensual myths. It is not a nation's past that shapes its mythology but a nation's mythology that determines its past. History becomes a...
Any way you slice it, the economy is sluggish. But last week the Commerce Department began highlighting the gross domestic product instead of the more familiar gross national product as its preferred gauge of the economy's health. Both measure the total output of goods and services. But the GNP...
It was a cold day in hell when Terry Anderson won his freedom at last. The snow fell hard in Mount Lebanon as he spent the last 24 hours pacing in his cell, playing solitaire by candlelight and listening to the BBC broadcast stories of his progress on the road...
But what Beijing really wants is to resume official contact with the United States. And Baker's visit, through the distorting lens of the official media, will deliver to the Chinese people a very disappointing message that the United States is ready to forget the past and resolidify its relationship...
"I brought up paper clips, contact lens solution, paper [and] soap for years to come," she says.