Word: comparisons
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However, even the rating systems for universities in the U.S. vary "in terms of how much comparison information you get," Buell says, adding that he prefers the CUE to many systems used by other schools...
...course, one could go on and on extolling the wonders of CNN, Court TV and American Movie Classics. But discussion here should be limited to old-fashioned prime-time network TV--the fairest way, after all, to draw a comparison with TV's pre-cable Bronze Age. A list of indispensable current series, besides those already mentioned, would include the mighty, acerbic Roseanne, still potent after seven-plus seasons; newer shows now hitting their stride, like Mad About You, The X-Files, Friends, NewsRadio and the wonderful Homicide, more vivid and biting than its more illustrious rival NYPD Blue. Among...
...pair have accorded themselves another lettered badge of shame--picture them cheerfully crowning one another with conical hats emblazoned with the letter 'D'. With this film they will make public life their prison; their tortures will be the jeers and abuse of their audience. Yet such pain pales in comparison with the cruel and unusual punishment they have inflicted on the movie-going public...
...different. Perhaps it was the diminished ardor of a repeat performance. Or maybe it was the spectacle of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat actually seeming comfortable with each other. Whatever the reason, even the principals seemed to sense that last Thursday's gathering at the White House paled in comparison with the September 1993 ceremony, when the Israelis and the Palestinians stunned the world by signaling their determination to end the hostilities that had divided them for 45 years. "Perhaps this picture has already become routine," observed Rabin. "The handshakes no longer set your pulse racing...
...home. Defense attorneys say the blood was either contaminated by police incompetence, making DNA tests unreliable, or planted by Fuhrman and Vannatter. To support the latter claim, they point out that blood disappeared from the lab sample taken from Simpson's arm for comparison purposes in the DNA tests. A nurse originally testified that the sample contained around 8 cc of blood on June 13, but according to defense testimony it lost 1.5 cc of blood during the police investigation. The defense postulates--but without evidence--that Vannatter took the vial of blood in an unsealed envelope and brought...