Word: distinguished
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...another level, however, Loury’s academic distance is an attempt to legitimize and distinguish his work as a part of the discussion on race in America. His distaste for the pat, comprehensive ideological boxes that are available for intellectuals—particularly black intellectuals—on the subject of race coincides with a concern that the hackneyed terms that guide our discourse may be slowing, or stopping, progress. Both his biography and his philosophy break the mold of an overly simplistic way of thinking about race in America. Hopefully, the innovation and cogency of his vision will...
...warns that the inability to distinguish among students could lead to a return to a system in which personal connections are necessary for success—harkening back to an earlier elite era of Harvard...
Because teachers are unable to distinguish effectively between students’ quality of work when almost 50 percent of the grades are A or A-minus, some have said Harvard should add a grade of A-plus. An A-plus, presumably, would allow professors to reward truly exceptional work while leaving the rest of the grading system intact...
...work in a class, and an A meant that you excelled and drew your own innovative, original conclusions or demonstrated uncommon mastery of the application of the themes presented in the course, then it would be superfluous to release the median grade in the course. It might help outsiders distinguish between students, and it might even help students distinguish among themselves, but it would be fundamentally opposed to the most essential purpose of grades—giving students an indication of their mastery of the material on a quality-based measure. It could even misrepresent to outsiders the value...
Where Dell makes no attempt to distinguish its products, relying instead on process and price to give it advantage, Apple has succeeded in recent years by delivering an innovative, elegant product line. Apple’s strength, and the source of its strategy, is the quality of its product line; it focuses on quality above those critics who claim it must expand its market share “or die.” Its new operating system, OS X, is the sleekest, most stable, most intuitive consumer OS ever made. Every reviewer in the computer trade press swoons over...