Word: difference
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the peace team disparages even her p.r. success. "It's not the person telling the story that matters," he says. "It's the willingness of the world to listen." While Hanan is a member of the "higher committee" that determines Palestinian positions in the negotiations, her colleagues differ on how influential she is there. She does not have the automatic gravitas belonging to representatives of the various factions; on the other hand, her often sound advice follows no party line. Another delegate says she is just an "excellent packager." A third says "the real power is elsewhere...
...course, there is one compelling factor which sets conservatives and minority students apart. Except when the particular conservative is also a minority, (which happens more often than stereotypes about racial minorities would lead us to believe) conservatives do not differ physically from their white, upper-middle-class liberal peers. Thus no matter how much we get called "fascists" we may much more easily overcome the biases with which others judge...
Blacks do not enjoy crime and violence any more the whites do. But the two groups differ in their ability to effectively institute solutions because Black Americans are burdened with the legacy of second-class citizenship and the continued existence of racism and discrimination...
...Reasonable people can differ on what isappropriate compensation for that performance," hesaid. "I would say that we're comfortable that ourbonuses for that period were not unreasonable inrelation to the profit we generated...
...Shakespeare course will focus on issues of kinship and revenge in Hamlet, Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice, Shell said. He said the class will differ from Professor of English Marjorie Garber's Core course on Shakespeare...