Word: detracted
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...Dunn greatest hits album tell the story of two cowboys on the trail, who meet up with a woman who not only shoots better than they do, she knows how to get to the next town when her companions don't. But her capability and brains don't detract one bit from her red-haired beauty...
...happy about our overall effort," said sophomore Katherine Hodge. "We played very hard across the board. It was unfortunate that there were a few lapses, but that doesn't detract from the overall effort...
Unfortunately, some musicians find that no amount of catching up can remedy the absence of a sharply-focused, easily-implemented program of practice at Harvard, where academic distractions and a theory-heavy music curriculum detract from the student's ability to perfect the art of performance. "The tragedy is that while Harvard can easily become the place where you decide music is the love of your life, you may reach this epiphany at a point in your life when it really is too late for that decision," admits senior Akiko Tarumoto '98, a violinist of 16 years' experience and member...
CAPE TOWN: President Clinton arrived in South Africa this morning to be greeted by a handful of Islamic protesters proclaiming that ?Zionists? weren?t welcome. That?s not likely to be the last such discordant footnote, but it's not likely to detract from Clinton?s upbeat celebration of South Africa?s post-apartheid achievement...
...desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate by the end of the novel; they unnecessarily detract from the strongpresence of Coe's other characters...