Word: realm
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...last year, the Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group--also founded by Kent--has helped to bring mental illnesses such as depression from the realm of conversational taboo into students' consciousness. The group, supported by UHS Health Education Office, brings speakers on issues of Mental Health, sponsors Colloquia and helps with Depression screening programs...
...realm of foreign policy, the President rightly criticized Congress for our long-standing debt to the United Nations. As a world leader, the United States should be setting an example. Our refusal to pay our debts to the UN is an international disgrace. The UN is certainly far from perfect, but we should not be held hostage by a handful of right-wing extremists who believe we should have no part in the organization...
...criticize the media's involvement in this scandal yet relies on the as-yet-unconfirmed rumors about the workings of the investigation of the President. The American public and their soaring approval of the President cheapen the national character in the eyes of the world, and perhaps in the realm of American history in the decades to come. This scandal, complex and unsubstantiated, has woefully derailed vital American policy in Iraq, Bosnia and Israel...
...truth. His answer to Lehrer's simple question about the scandal was disturbingly complex: "I did not ask anyone to tell anything other than the truth. There is no improper relationship." Note the indefinite pronouns, "anyone" and "anything". He's taken the question out of the personal realm and into the theoretical, where the President would never ask someone to lie. I won't even examine the usage of the present tense in his denial of impropriety...
There are countless other issues entwined in this mess of presidential proportions. Kenneth Starr might be praised in some circles for his role in uncovering the scandal. He shouldn't be. He extended the purview of his office far beyond Whitewater into the realm of a witch hunt. The Republicans, unusually quiet on this issue, may seem untainted by comparison with this disaster. Don't forget that their Speaker of the House prevaricated to the Ethics Committee about his shady book deals and that they have allowed their lobbyists to stand on the edge of the House floor, writing...