Word: discernibly
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...largely silent throughout the entire affair. It had been unnerving to turn to the papers every day and see "administration officials," "sources close to the White House" and other nebulous characters responding to the charges. And the president still has not taken any initiative to help the public discern between truth and rumor...
Since 50,000 doses of acid weigh less than a penny, it is hard to discern just how much pure LSD is involved. But the government should try a bit harder that this. Weighing the vessel the acid is in and using that as the actual weight of the drug is analogous to busting someone at Customs in Miami for coke possession and then including the weight of the 727 that they flew in on. There is, as we all know, no glut of prison cells in America; the justice system chooses who will fill them with the severity...
...toward our own prejudices so that we will turn to others for enlightenment. But a good liberal arts education demands that we be equally skeptical of the prejudices of others. This is possible because proponents of the liberal arts education believe in our universal capacity to reason and to discern truth. Promoters of diversity, on the other hand, appeal not to truth but to many different truths. To them, Harvard is not an education but an experience. As Harvard so unabashedly prefaces so many of its brochures, "Diversity is the hallmark of the Harvard experience...
...performing an abortion with their own hand. After her experience with RU 486, Joelle Mevel, 34, vows that if there is a next time, she will choose surgery. "I spent the whole time worrying that I would see the child in the basin, that I would be able to | discern something human in the blood," she says. "I would rather have gone to sleep and awakened later knowing it was all over...
...Every department of course constantly pressures the dean for more faculty and more resources," he said. "It is a matter for [me] to discern where the pressures are greatest...