Word: discerning
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...entirely from forums of academic discussion. Harvard students, as intelligent and discriminating as we are, do not require the guidance of supposedly “tolerant” campus groups like the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA) and BGLTS advisers in order to discern what is valid argument and what...
...unlikely leader of the campus crusade. As a professor in the department of geology and geophysics, he spends most of his time studying rock fossils to discern the habitats of ancient mammals. Fox was active in campaigns against U.S. policies in Latin America, but he supported the Gulf War and U.S. intervention in the Balkans. Fox subscribes to several oft-recited criticisms of a military campaign against Saddam. He believes a war with Iraq would kill Iraqi civilians, produce a new generation of anti-American terrorists and destabilize the Middle East. "These are very likely consequences of war," he says...
Throughout his career, Gore's main assets have been his ideas, his decisiveness and his ability to discern things before just about anyone else. As Clinton agonized over Bosnia, it was Gore who convinced him that bombing would bring the Serbs to the peace table. Gore coined the term "information superhighway" in the 1970s, and he was already worrying about global warming when he was in college. His strengths, he says, are "listening and translating what people are telling me into practical plans for making it happen. I think I'm better at looking over the next ridge...
...eerie, whispering sound issued from within the dank grove. I rounded a bend in the path, half expecting to come face-to-face with the slithering monster. Instead, it was a small army of Thai matrons engaged in one of the country's most popular pastimes?trying to discern lucky lottery numbers by swirling powder over the bumps and ridges of the broad palm trunks. To me, it looked guaranteed to rub the Naga the wrong...
...parking lot off a highway outside Washington. It is hard to imagine what castles of delusion came crashing down when the tactical team smashed in the windows of the Caprice and dragged the two out into the nighttime chill. The air was filled with screams, but witnesses could not discern if they emanated from the suspects or their captors...