Word: distinctives
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...created with the mandate to “improve relations among racial and ethnic groups within the University and to enhance the quality of our common life.” What’s baffling is the practical result of that goal: the facilitation of dialogue between students with distinct racial and ethnic identities, and the simultaneous ignorance of the unique position and insight of those students in whom these identities converge...
...paeans to national glory. In October, the Spanish Olympic Committee, seeking to bring an end to their suffering, launched a competition to put words to the Marcha Real, Spain's official tune since the 18th century. When the contest opened, doubts ran high that a country with so many distinct - and antagonistic - political identities would be able to settle on a single set of lyrics. But when the winning words were leaked to the Spanish newspaper ABC on Friday, politicans across the political spectrum showed surprising agreement in their reception of the proposed lyrics: they hated them...
...their draft proposal, released in October 2006, Harvard’s Task Force on General Education offered “a new rationale for general education at Harvard, one that is distinct from the rationale for the present Core curriculum.” The Committee’s report did not call the present Core—required of all Harvard undergraduates since 1978—a bureaucratic monstrosity compromised ever since its inception. Instead, reformers insisted that the Core is a victim of changing times. The draft asserted that today’s Harvard students “will...
...through all of you. I have always been somebody who was other-directed and pretty much just decided that people would judge me by what I did. I have never thought that what I said was anywhere near as important as what I did. I think there is a distinct difference between talk and action and maybe it is because I have been in these trenches for a long time and the people I value are the doers. When I got to the Senate I said I was a workhorse, not a showhorse, and set out to prove...
...college hockey these days, it’s two distinct seasons—what you do before Christmas and what you do after,” senior tri-captain Caitlin Cahow said. “It’s important for us to come back and play hard and get back on the horse...