Word: comparison
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...would like to see a comparison of how many people in this country die each year as a result of taking herbal supplements and how many die each year as a result of faulty prescription-medicine usage. Print that; then let's talk some more...
...Today, by comparison, the timbre of activism seems a bit more hands-off. The protests of this year ran from a “die-in†at a fall career forum and a grievance-airing at a speech by the director of the FBI to the hunger strike and the “I am Harvard†racism campaign. But at no point were administrators and students—or police and students, for that matter—nearly as at odds as they were a few decades...
...myopia has given rise to a pernicious moral equivalency—exhibited most recently in S. Allen Counter’s comparison of the tactics of the South African apartheid regime to the Harvard University Police Department’s. A meaningfully “international†community would recoil instinctively from such a plainly ignorant distortion—one that imputes the reputation of a murderous regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent...
...game and a half in, then I started playing and got nervous again. It’s like this cycle of being nervous and playing and nerves and playing. It was an internal battle playing them.†The intensity of the showdown against Trinity paled in comparison, however, to the importance of that weekend’s road trip to face Ivy League heavyweights Penn and Princeton. Unfortunately, the weekend was unkind to the Crimson. Harvard entered its match against the Quakers at 6-0 before losing, 6-3, and then dropped its match against Princeton the next...
...midst of the Administration's surge strategy, comes the latest - and, alas, most preposterous - historical analogy: according to the New York Times, the Administration is now kicking around the idea of Iraq as Korea. White House spokesman Tony Snow made the comparison publicly last week as the Administration acknowledged that it was looking into keeping long-term bases in Iraq. The appeal of the comparison is obvious: the U.S. has had large numbers of troops in South Korea for more than half a century, without engaging in a major conflict once the Korean War ended...