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Okay, so there you have it—five distinct, clear reasons why the sporting world should get better in the very, very near future, and you all have American politics, rap music and my omniscience to thank. I haven’t even touched upon the parallels between Bush and Kerry and the correlating prognostications for the annual November throw-down that is Harvard-Yale...
...Yasser Arafat had three distinct roles in Palestinian politics - president of the Palestinian Authority, chairman of the PLO and head of the Fatah organization. It is generally agreed by Palestinian analysts that there will be no new Arafat, in the sense of a single individual who controls so much of Palestinian political life, and a new leadership is likely to be more collective and consultative in nature (a process that can complicate as well as facilitate negotiations). But the overriding concern among the key Palestinian factions is to avoid a chaotic succession struggle that will further weaken their national movement...
...featured artists also give the festival a distinct international flavor. The first concert in this year’s concert series was given on Oct. 16 by a viol consort from England. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Venice Baroque Orchestra will perform. Later, other artists from such varied countries as Canada, Germany and Russia will participate in the series...
...planning committee’s report offers further justification, “While some might assume that comparison or ‘comparative religion’ necessarily entails a position of either extreme universalism or radical relativism, the study of religious worlds that are distinct from one’s own challenges one to consider the family resemblances among human concerns, to see the rich diversity of responses to such human concerns as a resource for thinking anew within one’s own tradition...
...Psychopathia Sexualis, which coins the terms “sadism” and “masochism” and describes sexual disorders in which acts of cruelty and bodily punishment become sexually pleasurable. At this time, the two “sexual anomalies” are understood as distinct: sadism involves finding sexual pleasure in inflicting pain on another person; masochism involves ceding control of a sexual situation to another person...