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...could seek out independent sources of information that put Milosevic's retrograde, neocommunist line in context. But with the war on, those independent voices are either snuffed out or taken over. Now, even among the educated elite, a slow, sad transformation is taking hold as Milosevic's distorted media prism resolves every shade of gray into black and white...
...subcommittee is almost invariably underthe thumb of the dean's office," Silverglate saysof his research into Harvard's procedures. "Theevidence is shifted through the prism of thesubcommittee...
...coming year, as Y2K becomes a more familiar problem, the ranks of secular Y2K survivalists may grow. But most early "roosters"--people who see apocalypse on the millennial horizon--came to their conclusions through a prism of religious belief. Though millennialism hinges upon the notion of Christ's return, there are pockets of religious Year 2000 cultism even in nations that are mostly non-Christian. Chen Tao, for instance, is a Taiwan-based group of cultists whose beliefs combine ufo lore with rough-and-ready bits of Christianity. In 1997 a group of them settled in Garland, Texas, to await...
...this can remain even through long absences. I delighted in seeing the strength and depth of my alma mater reflected in Nelson Mandela's gracious acceptance of the honor Harvard had bestowed upon him. Perhaps like many others in Tercentenary Theater that day, I found myself peering through the prism of my identification with Harvard to consider my other identities--as a politician, as a Democrat, but most of all, as a provincial...
...moments like this one, even Clinton's narcissism can come to his rescue. A man who tends to view situations through the prism of his own needs, he is already framing his survival as crucial to the Democratic Party agenda, or what's left of it, though issues like Social Security and health-care reform might be better advanced now if he just stepped aside and let Al Gore take them up. At the prayer breakfast he also managed to describe his potential resurrection as an opportunity for "the children of this country" to learn moral lessons about selfishness...