Word: slants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition to lending his expertise to the opposition, over the years Whitehurst has dispatched hundreds of memos to the Justice Department, critiquing his colleagues' performance and accusing the FBI of a pro-prosecution slant in dozens of investigations. "Science," he says, "cannot be a whore to a political agenda." Last fall at Attorney General Janet Reno's request, Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich assembled an international team of forensic scientists to conduct an exhaustive investigation of Whitehurst's charges. Though the report is not due until the end of this year, TIME has learned that it is likely to reject...
...office and the new rooms we will be moving into, they would have seen that this move is not "costing" HAND resources, but is enriching them. After four hours of interviewing at least 10 people, it is scandalous that the only person found to support the reporters' slant was a non-member of HAND. We gave the reporters real news about positive changes in a program that hundreds of students dedicate their time to, but it was apparently not the story they wanted to tell. --Mandy H. Bigelow '97, co-chair of HAND
...minute hep cats, saying "Ain't I fine?" instead of "Now I'm the grandest tiger in the jungle!"). Lester and Pinkney also give the story--originally written in 1899 by a Scottish woman and set in India but with minstrel-like black characters--a specifically African-American slant. Marcellino's approach is the more conservationist. He has left the original's simple text as it was, merely replacing the characters' names with Indian ones and adding sweetly spare new illustrations...
Such a belief in the endurance of place over time gives the movie an easy-going realism, with almost a social historian's slant. Sam's search for the true story of his father neatly parallels the brief conflict in one scene between Hispanics and whites in the community over what version of history to teach. As Sam listens to one account after another of various adventures related to the murder mystery, the movie's theme becomes interaction between story-telling and reality...
...Service News, which had a more military slant than the regular Crimson, was published twice a week by students...