Word: different
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insists that the Register "does not take a stand to the right of the church. It is to the right of some who differ from what the Pope says." Nevertheless, his principal columnists are bitter polemicists, some of whom delight in discovering evidence of ancient heresies among contemporary Catholic liberals...
...though, his new friends received him into their homes graciously, a fact he recalled on being warmly welcomed by the families he reported on for the cover story. "The subjects were cooperative, even eager to talk about their life-styles and aspirations," he says, "which don't differ much from those of middle-class whites. But I came away with the reinforced belief that black Americans on all levels are still confined by overt and subtle prejudice...
...respect, we Americans differ little from our 17th century Puritan forebears. We continue to believe in the efficacy of witch hunts of grandiose proportions for excising the evil from among us. They may provide a needed catharsis, may even have a mild deterrent effect; but when will we learn that evil is not a wart on the body politic, but a cancer endemic in the human soul...
...admissions, uses the traditional criteria of grade-point average and LSAT scores, with one exception: any person without an acceptable academic background is considered if there are what one member of the admissions committee terms "mitigating factors--anything you find in their record that is interesting." Student and faculty differ occasionally over individual applications, but all agree on the importance of experience outside the usual academic channels...
...Schmidt-Genscher team will differ considerably from Brandt and Scheel in style and policy emphasis...