Word: portrayal
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...article on TIME's choice of T.D. Jakes as America's Best Preacher focused too much on Jakes' style rather than his substance, which is what really counts [AMERICA'S BEST, Sept. 17]. You failed in your report to portray Jakes as a great teacher, father figure, brother, coach, economic adviser, marriage counselor, mentor, friend and, most important, a brave champion in the battle of spiritual warfare. Jakes helps turn males into men, women into ladies, prisoners into ministers and cultural Christians into God's servants. JOHN DAVID GARZA Dallas...
...possibly violence, but the rewards?the end of international sanctions, debt relief, millions of dollars in aid for refugees?could mean legitimacy abroad and perhaps, eventually, something approaching stability at home. Musharraf's acquiescence was, of course, a disappointment to long-standing rival India, which is anxious to portray Pakistan as a hotbed of extremism and worried about signs of budding fanaticism within its own 150 million-strong Muslim population. On Friday, India's main Islamic cleric, Syed Ahmad Bukhari, said that if the "ulema announce jihad, it is obligatory for each and every Muslim to support...
Although David B. Adelman ’04 said the panel was “very intellectually stimulating,” he said he also thought it did not portray a balanced view...
Groton alumni overwhelmingly say the school was picked upon by the press, avid for a chance to portray expensive, exclusive schools as somehow corrupt...
...balanced article. I am a former Marine, and was stationed on Okinawa in 1996-97. The shock and shame from the 1995 rape of a 12-year-old girl by three servicemen were still reverberating then. All the same, I am sick and tired of articles that portray our military men as violent and the Okinawan women as innocent schoolgirls. Ninety-nine percent of the servicemen are good kids trying to serve their country far from home. JENNY WATSON Stafford...