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...ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS? They've hurt it. This Administration has abandoned what has been in the past a bipartisan commitment to a relatively balanced position in trying to find peace. It's been an ostentatious alliance between the White House and the Sharon government, I think to the detriment of our nation's image and to the detriment of an eventual peace agreement...
During their campaign, Blickstead and Mahan say they have shown similar attention to detail—often to the detriment of their sleep schedule...
MBTA officials argue that the provisions are necessary to improve communication; music from street performers often obscures announcements from trains, they say, to the detriment of waiting commuters. And yet the MBTA could alleviate communication issues in a more obvious way: Announcements from shoddy, scruffy broadcast system are often difficult to hear in stations without musical performers—the MBTA should first seek to improve the quality of its announcement system before blaming musicians for communication problems...
...grains. What we loaded up on was pasta, white rice and French fries. Technically, we were following the rules, but by focusing on these highly processed or refined foods, we were missing out on a lot of antioxidants and other important nutrients. And we found out, much to the detriment of our waistlines, that it's a whole lot easier to overeat pasta, rice and potatoes than apples and broccoli...
...worse, applicants and alumni donors use rankings to indicate college quality—a powerful incentive for colleges to improve along the criteria selected by the rankings. But the rankings only lead to improvements for students and colleges if their criteria are meaningful. Often they are to the detriment of educational quality. It is unfortunate when colleges pump resources into football programs at the expense of educational quality in an effort to boost alumni giving rates—a ranking criterion for U.S. News & World Reports. An excessive focus on standard testing scores such as the SAT to boost selectivity...