Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comparison, about 25 percent of the FAS's revenue comes from tuition-even after financial aid is subtracted...
...infection is correlatory, not causal. However, sex between one HIV-positive and one HIV-negative partner is much more likely to result in transmission if both partners are male than if one is male and the other female (and even less likely if they are both female). Finally, the comparison between race and sexuality fails because it fails to see the difference between sexual activity and sexual orientation. Given Harvard's social scene, there is a tremendous gap between these two terms, regardless of whether one is dealing with homosexuals or heterosexuals...
...mean, my God, she picks her own eggs, makes her own paint and makes everything so pretty. I had a subscription for two months, but she made me feel so deficient, so I canceled. Reading it made me feel bad about myself." Even high-powered friends pale in comparison. While buddy Charlotte Beers, chairman emeritus of Ogilvy & Mather, calls Stewart a "really elegant teacher," she also says, "It's true she can make a pie in four minutes, and I'm a great piemaker myself. It's maddening...
...most plausible answer is that tobacco is worse because it kills more people. Indeed it does. But 100,000 people a year is still a fair carnage. Moreover, the really compelling comparison is this: alcohol is far more deadly than tobacco to innocent bystanders. In a free society, should we not consider behavior that injures others more worthy of regulation than behavior that merely injures oneself? The primary motive for gun control, after all, is concern about homicide, not suicide...
...Claude Duvalier. I believe Mother Teresa accepted them because of the genuine good that would result from helping the poor. Human judgments must bow to divine judgment, and Mother Teresa more than anyone else understood the need to adopt that view. Whatever faults she might have had pale in comparison to the very true criticism Mother Teresa leveled at us in our supposed enlightened and evolved modern civilization. CARLOS DE VERA New York City...