Word: distinguish
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...Stoss's equal, to say the least. John Rewald New York City Your review says Veit Stoss was not well known outside Germany. No one, however, could graduate from a Hungarian high school 40 years ago if, when presented with a slide of a wood carving, he could not distinguish whether it was a Stoss or a Riemenschneider. Vladimir Lieskovsky Woodside, Calif...
Dorje Shugden is one one of hundreds of "protector deities" that distinguish Tibetan Buddhism from more purely philosophical varieties. Historically, the god is associated with maintaining, sometimes violently, the purity of Dalai Lama's own lineage of teachers and gurus, called the Gelugpa. Indeed the high Lama himself prayed to Shugden for years; but the sect's purist and exclusionary emphases contradicted his own outreach to other Tibetan lineages, and in 1996 he began demanding that monastic abbots renounce the deity...
...them rely on FARC-protected coca cultivation for their livelihoods, but others are simply poor rural residents who have been beaten down for decades by the military and still believe in the FARC's original social-justice crusade. The guerrillas dress in civilian clothes and can be hard to distinguish from local farmers, and the difficult terrain is perfect for hit-and-run guerrilla warfare. The government "could not sustain an offensive on this scale without U.S. help," says Alberto. "They use American money to set up high mountain battalions, pay informants, for training, helicopters, boats and every type...
...hard to imagine a future Russert with that kind of singular authority, as the power to set the news agenda moves from insiders to outsiders. But with that change, maybe we'll also stop arbitrarily dividing "real" from "amateur" journalists and simply distinguish good reporting from bad, informed opinion from hot air, information from stenography. Maybe we'll remember this election as the one when we stopped talking about "the old media" and "the new media" and, simply, met the press...
There are a number of paths Obama could take in trying to make the economy his issue. He could go on a populist tear, blaming all of today's economic problems on plutocrats and multinational corporations. He could distinguish himself as a speaker of unpleasant truths--like the fact that today's high gasoline prices are as much the fault of American drivers as of anybody else. He could offer a compelling vision of how he'd steer the U.S. toward a better future. He could show that he cares about today's economic troubles by throwing out proposal after...