Word: distinctives
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...admissions officers, there's a distinct hierarchy to recommendation letters. "Brilliant means more than bright," says Bowdoin's senior associate dean of admissions Linda Kreamer. "?Hardworking and motivated' probably means the student isn't too smart." Cornell readers bristled at a recommendation hailing a student who "cares more about what he learns than what grades he gets." Translation: If admitted, he'd wind up on academic probation...
...WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: Gao's novels, "Soul Mountain" and "One Man's Bible," wowed the judges with their "uninhibited mutations and grotesque symbolic language of dreams" and "distinct images of contemporary society." If this sounds like your cup of (green) tea but you have had a hard time finding Chinese literature in Western bookstores or libraries, this Nobel could open the floodgates...
...issues on which voters should make their decisions. Unfortunately, Lehrer's last question of the evening did not further this goal; by challenging Gore's credibility in a way that gave Bush the first response, he ended the debate in a way that put the vice president at a distinct disadvantage...
...that theorists of democracy have long been playing, one that dates back to none other than Socrates. In the Republic, Socrates describes for his companions what he terms the Democratic Man, a figure who panders shamelessly to public whim and so wins its approval. To my mind, what is distinct about our American democracy is not that we have these Democratic Men--for we have legions of them--rather it is that thing to which our Democratic Men (and Women) so often pander, namely, our hunger for a great leader...
...that even though the fetal material being expelled doesn't look like a baby, it is still an unborn child. "We will have to personalize the egg," she says. By the time a woman misses a period, sees her doctor and confirms the pregnancy, opponents note, there are already distinct signs of life. "Brain waves can be picked up as early as six weeks," says Laura Echevarria, communications director of the National Right to Life Committee. "We will be stepping up our efforts to educate people about the early development of the unborn child...