Word: detractions
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...studies who is also serving on the committee established by Epps and Love, says the women’s studies committee needs to define the relationship between women’s studies and the new queer studies committee, so that the two committees reinforce—and not detract from—each other...
Critics have disparaged Starsailor for lacking originality and not challenging the boundaries of modern rock and roll. While such claims are not unfounded, they do not detract from what the group does very well. If Starsailor’s music is rooted firmly in the past, it cannot be denied that the group has made great strides towards mastering—even refining, perhaps—the forms they emulate...
Huidekoper stresses that the various financial difficulties facing Harvard’s graduate schools will not detract from the University’s core mission: teaching and education...
...dispute doesn't detract from the fact that the Europeans have enthusiastically and effectively taken up the war against al Qaeda. They have uprooted its European networks, shared intelligence and offered thousands of troops to the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. But the controversy over Guantanamo has reminded them of the reasons they regarded the Bush administration with suspicion before September 11. Tempers were not cooled by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's initial reaction last week to concerns over the fate of the detainees: "I do not feel the slightest concern at their treatment; they are being treated vastly better than...
While imprisonment generally tends to tarnish a political figure’s image, Ogletree said Sharpton’s Vieques sentence does not detract from his candidacy...