Word: vision
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...days but because "it makes us more morally energetic about punishment. We wake up each morning to punish some more." And the death sentence, abolitionists believe, implies that certain individuals have lost the right to call themselves human, an idea that runs counter to the Founding Fathers' vision of inalienable rights that can neither be taken away for bad behavior nor awarded for good conduct. Those rights, says Amnesty International deputy director Curt Goering, "apply to all of us--even the worst. And in the end, they protect...
...cite just one example, Rolando Cruz and another Chicago man were sentenced to death for the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. The prosecution based its case on a "vision statement" from Cruz--a dream about the murder he'd allegedly recounted to police. The conviction was overturned, and Cruz was retried in 1990, but another man--who had actually confessed to the crime--was not allowed to testify, and Cruz was convicted on the same dream evidence. In 1994 the state Supreme Court overturned Cruz's second conviction, and the government began preparations...
...Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) is an accountant who appears ready to accept joylessness as his lot until, on the street one night, he sees a vision: a beautiful woman (Tamiyo Kusakari) in the second-floor window of a dance class. Her ballerina grace, her poise and a secret stately sadness devastate him. Whether or not he can dance, his heart does...
...Xers say, "I am very sure that one day I will get to where I want to be in life"--showing far more confidence than boomers did a generation ago. For all their ironic detachment, today's young adults embrace an American Dream--albeit one different from the vision their parents or grandparents...
Mendelsohn says that once photocopying made creating sourcebooks relatively more affordable, professors chose texts based on their vision for the course...