Word: distinctness
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...Charles Eliot shared with most of his contemporaries the assumption that there were a number of distinct races, each with its own identifiable characteristics. As has already been suggested, he also believed that the special talents, qualities, and interests of each race should be preserved, insofar as possible.... Nevertheless, he identified race as a positive component of diversity, and defined racial diversity as an element that enhances--rather than diminishes--the vitality and strength of a democratic society...
...America. In "Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art," therefore, not surprisingly the themes of loss, separation, and alienation dominate overtly. But as each artist lets these general ideas churn on the surface, the deeper psychological effects of such attacks on identity gradually bubble up, too, revealing more tortured, distinct individual sufferings...
...faculty objections] involve the restoration of genuine consultation and collaboration, as distinct from the misrepresented and discredited consultative procedures of 1994," wrote Paul. "This is an issue which is not going to go away, since decisions involving the best use of the resources of the University in accomplishing its missions of education and research must involve the faculty as well as the administration."Crimson File PhotoDAVID S. LANDES...
...rattled in 1993, when Ozawa, an LDP renegade, engineered the election of Japan's first nonconservative Prime Minister post-1948. But since then, the LDP has regained its influence, and politics has returned to form. Now there is a chance for a real election between two parties with distinct candidates. "This is very good for Japan," says Yasuhiko Torii, president of Tokyo's Keio University, the alma mater of Ozawa and Hashimoto. "Politics is very different. Ozawa and Hashimoto will have to really debate...
Stampfer says he disagrees with Healy's sentiment that the biologies of men and women are distinct enough to warrant separate research in every instance...