Word: counterpart
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However, a word of caution: a center devoted solely to ethnic and cultural organizations runs the danger of self-segregation and its inevitable counterpart--marginalization. One of the hall-marks of the post-World War II Harvard community has been the commitment to a shared collective culture comprised of myriad ethnicities and cultural backgrounds that the diverse student body represents. The creation of a multicultural student center could potentially undermine that shared experience by separating certain ethnicities and exacerbating divisions. We expect the panel to address these dangers. We need to ensure that a multicultural student center would be able...
Grancio had four inches and 25 pounds on his Tiger counterpart, Gabe Lewullis, but Lewullis' quickness proved to be the dominating force on the court. Grancio mustered only two first-half points and no assists and was benched for sieve-like defence...
...other hand, the character of the superlatively cultured and corrupted Madame Merle, Osmond's female counterpart and ally, is as complex as Isabel's yet far more comprehensible and as effectively conveyed, if not more so, in the film by Campion as in the book. The rest of the acting is good as well, though Malkovich's Osmond is a bit too repulsive to convince us that Isabel could ever have fallen...
French president Jacques Chirac is fond of certain things American: junk food, his summer-school days at Harvard, the South Carolina belle he almost married, Bill Clinton. Campaigning in the spring of 1995, Chirac enthused about the prospect of working with his U.S. counterpart; the two men, both gregarious, backslapping extroverts, had hit it off from their first meeting in Paris a year earlier. But how, a reporter asked, would sensitive Franco-American relations fare? "They will be excellent," Chirac predicted. Pause. "And contentious...
...paper generated concern in the U.S., where not one case of mad-cow disease has been diagnosed. "I hope we're not on the same course as the British," says Rohwer, "but we could be." What concerns Rohwer and others is that the U.S. agricultural industry, like its British counterpart, recycles animal scraps, turning them into both cattle feed and garden fertilizer. Should even one domestic cow develop the disease spontaneously--something that is known to occur in nature--the pathogen could quickly spread through U.S. herds...