Word: prism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presidential race, when polls say far more about name recognition than they do about actual likely victory. That's why TIME has created the Election Index, a framework for looking not just at who's the most popular but who has the most potential. Since through this prism, Hillary Clinton's whopping lead over other candidates is less important than her near-100% name recognition: If 98% of the population has already made up their minds about her, how can she ever get voter support above its current level of about...
...reviving a TIME tradition, a Law section, which will be written by Reynolds Holding, a lawyer and former executive editor of Legal Affairs, who has been posting a regular online column for us called Legal Opinion. In our litigious society, the law is a useful prism through which to examine trends. This week he looks at the perils of taking on spammers and what it means for the tension between freedom of speech and a right to privacy...
...what’s going on, and thus less inhibited, while marijuana makes us hyper-alert, perceptive, and thoughtful. Alcohol is a fantastic social lubricant, but there is nothing particularly enlightening about it. Marijuana, on the other hand, allows us to access reality through a new and riveting sensory prism. I don’t mean to sound like former Harvard psychology lecturer Timothy F. Leary, famous for his advice to “Tune in; turn on; drop out.” I’m not hocking a bunch of naïve, quasi-mystical...
...loathed as Saddam's regime may have been among Arabs, many nonetheless viewed him through a nationalist prism. From Morocco to the Gulf, there was widespread admiration for Saddam's willingness to stand against the U.S. and Israel. On the Arab street, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was therefore viewed as an imperialist Western assault on Arabs and Muslims rather than the war of liberation from an odious oppressor, as the Bush Administration had depicted...
...terror" prism conceals the complexity of a conflict based on clan, political and regional rivalries that, in some cases, date back to the 1960s. And regional analysts fear that the tension will be exacerbated rather than resolved by the responses of outside players...