Word: distinguisher
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...police." Soldiers are trained for "killing people and breaking things," which is incompatible with the police’s (theoretical) commitment to maintaining law and order with as little violence as necessary. When the police are breaking down doors as if Boston were Baghdad, it gets hard to distinguish the armed forces from the public servants...
...entitlement, vengeance and denial." He's talking of places like Kosovo or Jerusalem - or Somalia, where civil war between hundreds of clans has raged for 16 years and where it takes many minutes for strangers to introduce themselves, so intricate are the ethnic lineages that must be recounted to distinguish friend from...
Increasingly, doctors seeking to provide their patients with the best possible care are exploring what is known as evidence-based medicine--a hard, cold, empirical look at what works, what doesn't and how to distinguish between the two. It's not enough to prove that a particular blood test or CT scan really spots cancer, for example. You also need to know whether early detection of that cancer would make a difference in your ability to respond to treatment or it merely means that you would die at the same point but learn about your illness earlier than...
...polished part of me I’d ignored since my pre-teen years. I’d found my secret summer love. But God, why are the pretty ones always so damn stupid? “Infinity on High” lacks the cheek that helped the band distinguish itself from its pop peers on 2005’s “From Under the Cork Tree.” The track titles alone show the distinction: instead of “A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More ‘Touch...
...opening of the Student Organization Center in Hilles feels as chilly as an abandoned warehouse. It has been said that only half of the International Relations Council has ever seen their Hilles-based office. And a significant subset of the Harvard population probably can’t distinguish between Hilles, HOLLIS, and Hillel. One need only walk the halls of Hilles’ upper floors to see that they are, indeed, desolate, and the café is anything but brewing with the social bustle of its faraway cousin in Lamont...