Word: distinguisher
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...this is problematic not simply for our democratic participation but also for our pretensions of empiricism, for our ability to distinguish facts. Our digest-happy modern world has taught us to accept news, facts and truth abstracted and condensed to such a level that nothing but opinion remains...
...NCAA Selection Committee faces a tough decision when it picks the last few at-large teams for the tournament--not because there are too many well-qualified teams. None of the five or six bubble teams competing for the final spots have done anything to particularly distinguish themselves from one another...
Although the three aforementioned competitors have been ranked ahead of Harvard all year, none of them have done much to distinguish themselves from the Crimson. Each has it share of wins over marginal top-20 teams, but no wins over top-10 teams...
...Harvard's Boston location does distinguish it from other Ivy schools. With four excellent Division 1 programs a Beanpot's throw away, coming to Harvard does not diminish your NHL prospects as scouts abound. The Crimson currently has five alums in the pros, with Craig Adams '99 the latest to join their ranks. And five current players are drafted...
...greatest conceptual project was marriage to Lennon. It let her inflate her thought balloons to global scale, but they burst. Those "bed-ins" for peace were sweet but also hard to distinguish from pure exhibitionism. The dreamy directives of her conceptual art became harder to square with the iron-clad narcissism of so much else that she did. "After unblocking one's mind," she once wrote, "by dispensing with visual, auditory and kinetic perceptions, what will come out of us? Would there be anything? I wonder." By the end of this show you may still be wondering...