Word: comparisons
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...racial categories, or any categories, as a means of keeping groups of people powerless and excluded. She resents seeing her writing pigeonholed by her skin color. "I was reading some essay about the Black Family"--she makes quotation marks with her fingers--"and the writer went into a comparison between one of my novels and The Cosby Show." She shakes her head and smiles. "That's like comparing apples and Buicks...
...second point is that despite what Harper suggests, all Harvard departments are indeed small by comparison with those at most comparable institutions. It is true that our English department currently has three unfilled tenured positions, but even when these are all filled we will still not be a large department. This means that we do not have the luxury of multiple senior appointments in any given specialty, and we are required to make an extremely strong case for any potential appointment before the President will feel confident in endorsing...
...unwilling to participate in Stevens' act of retribution. Her story is echoed in Robert Browning's poem, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," which she tells in flashback to the children she baby-sits. Browning's poem provides a recurring metaphor for the film--one not limited to the simple comparison between the children of Hamelin and those of Sam Dent...
...comparison, biology, which had a similar sample size, had only 13.7 percent of students saying they had never met with an advisor, and 91.5 percent of them had a person from whom they would seek advice...
...statistics alone tell much of the story. Harvard was outrebounded 25-35 on the evening, and shot 33 percent from the floor, including a devastating 4-for-20 effort from behind the arc. Meanwhile, Dartmouth reeled in 11 offensive boards and shot a glowing-by-comparison 38 percent from the floor...